DARK FANTASY AUTHOR
Eddy Rose
Gladiators and grimdark stories
He’s a broken gladiator bred to die in the arena.
She’s the woman who owns the pit.
The Black Hearth by Eddy Rose is a dark fantasy romance that blends the brutal spectacle of Gladiator with the grimdark mystery of The Witcher—then sets it on fire with a steamy, enemies-to-lovers arc. If you crave a mature, ruthless heroine, a quiet, haunted gladiator, and a world dripping with blood and ruin, don’t wait—get The Black Hearth now.
Meet the Author
Eddy Rose
Eddy Rose writes grimdark fantasy filled with gladiators, grit, and romance. Her characters are morally grey, complex humans with emotional depth, strong character development, and often a fatal lack of social skills.
A psychologist by day and author by night, she builds brutal worlds filled with deadly arenas, rich lore, and her own hand-drawn maps.
Based on the Gold Coast, Queensland (at least in theory), Eddy is famously hard to find unless you’re her husband or son, but she’s deeply fond of her reader community and will shamelessly spoil them with free short stories and maps through her newsletter.
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In a place of blood and sand, the arena offers what he never sought.
A Taste of Blade and Roar, a Twilight of Blood short story, is out now. Grab your free copy here.
In the blood-soaked pit of the Switchblade Arena, survival is a spectacle, and death is entertainment.
The King’s newest gladiator, a young purebred beast raised for the arenas, must earn his place in the merciless head trainer’s team by surviving an impossible fight—a Slayer’s Pit. But as he steps onto the shifting sands, he discovers the arena offers far more than blood and death. What he finds there will shape the beast destined to become the Lion of Zarall.
A Taste of Blood and Roar is a Twilight of Blood short story and a prequel to Lion of Zarall.
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