Godstorm: The Most High Octane and Original Fantasy Debut of 2026. Red Rising meets Circe

'Mothers who have come before. Daughters who have died in blood. Sons lost to the dark. Hear me' A Female Gladiator's Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End Empires In a petrol-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow, a gladiatrix turned governess must rescue the child she has loved as her own, a girl who could tear down the world. When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she'd sworn to forget, to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has come to think of as her own. Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer—or risk everything for the child who calls her "mother." She is the Sword.

© 2026 Bedford Square Publishers (Ebook): 9781835012611

Release date

Ebook: 15 January 2026