A Light So Blinding by Emma Hamm Harley Laroux Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is

Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College

Because time is running out

As whispers of war echo across the land of Vigrid

one of the seven chosen to swim out and plunder the wrecked ships beyond the Isle of Rosevear

Sebastian Rousseau is a grumpy

A Light So Blinding by Emma Hamm Harley Laroux Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes isShe was the offering. He became the sanctuary. Astrid has survived her entire life by staying silent. As a veiled priestess, she advises a nobleman who makes every decision for her. But when a letter arrives claiming her long lost sister is alive and captured by the trolls, Astrid is ready to risk everything. What she didn't expect? Her nobleman is in debt. And he's decided to pay it with her body. Traded to the gladiator pits beneath the kingdom,