Starside

Starside is Alex Aster's adult romantasy debut, following her New York Times bestselling Lightlark saga. Every fifty years, the gates between mortal Stormside and immortal Starside open for the Questral, a brutal contest fifty challengers enter for a chance at the gods' magic.

Aris, a blacksmith's apprentice, has no interest in the prize — she wants vengeance against the goddess who destroyed her family and her village.

Claiming a legendary sword marks her as a target the moment she crosses into Starside, and her fiercest obstacle becomes Harlan Raker, the king's guard who once betrayed her and whose fate may be bound to hers.