Heart Trials

J. Elle's dystopian romantasy duology for young adults, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. In Ethyria only the highborn may love, and the lowborn feel only what the ruling Benevolent allows. It opens with The Heart Trials (2026), in which saltblood courier Axira Merreri enters the Tournament of Hearts, a deadly dating competition for highborn citizenship, to win her freedom.