The Blood Gift Av N. E. Davenport

In this stunning conclusion to the Blood Gift duology, Ikenna and her rogue cohort must outrun bounty hunters, their former comrades, and a megalomaniacal demigod if they hope to save their world from the oppression that threatens from every side... Since discovering the treachery of Mareen's Tribunal Council and revealing her blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna has become a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that's the least of her worries.Her grandfather's longtime allies refuse to help, and the Blood Emperor's Warlord is tracking her. She's also struggling to control the enormous power she was granted by the Goddess of Blood Rites...and come to terms with the promises she made to get it. Amidst all of this, the Blood Emperor wages a full-scale invasion against Mareen and leaves a trail of death in his wake.As the horrors increase, Ikenna and her team realize they must end the Blood Emperor to end the war. But the price to do so is steep and has planet-shattering consequences. The price to do nothing, though, is annihilation.War has erupted. Alliances are fracturing. And Ikenna is torn between her loyalties, her desires for revenge, and the power threatening to consume her.With the world aflame, only one thing is certain: blood will be spilled.