Cover of Half-Blood (Covenant, #1)

Half-Blood

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Covenant #1

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A half-blood returns to her gods-descended school — and falls for the pure-blood trainer she can never have.

Content Warnings
death of loved oneviolence/gore

Description

After her mother's murder, seventeen-year-old Alex returns to the Covenant, a school for pure and half-mortal descendants of gods, and begins intense training to combat daimons, but her training becomes complicated by a forbidden attraction to her pure-blood trainer Aiden and a revelation about her past.

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