Deathball by W. H. Lockwood, TJ Rose

Intimidate. Annihilate. Survive.

Welcome to Deathball

ROBIN
They ripped me from my home.
They put me in these chains.
And now they expect me to fight other men to the death for their entertainment.
Bruised, battered, enslaved, and then I meet him—Marco, the reigning champion with blood on his hands and secrets in his eyes. Terrifying, unpredictable, an impossible beauty in the barren wastelands, Marco’s twice as vicious as the sport itself.
So why is he obsessed with me, training me harder than the other men, pushing me to my limits? And why does every brutal lesson only draw me closer to the one man I should fear most of all?

MARCO
Five years I’ve been their weapon. Five years of victory, of survival, of telling myself one more season, and I’ll finally earn my freedom, make it home.
Then they bring me Robin—beautiful, golden-haired, obstinately fierce, and smelling like the sunshine of my homeland—and suddenly I’m fighting a war on two fronts. In the arena, I have to forge him into a killer. In the shadows, I’m falling for the rival who could destroy everything I’ve worked for.
Because the one man I’m desperate to protect is also the one I’m destined to murder in the arena, in front of thousands of cheering Deathball fans.

When they’ve taken everything, maybe love is the only rebellion left.