Exile's Hope (The BlueSteel Series)

Banished for her father's crimes. Exiled for the curse she bears. For nearly two centuries, Gossama has stared at the forest she was forbidden to enter.She is Dasari, but her own people cannot look at her without feeling revulsion. The dragon-claw birthmark she was born with is a constant reminder of her father's betrayal, a punishment she did nothing to deserve. Raised in the mountains by a half-giant who saw something in her worth saving, she became what exile made her: the deadliest hunter her people have ever seen.Now, after two hundred years, the forest has finally opened its gates. But belonging has a price. Ancient enemies move through Miraden. A dragon stirs in the darkness. And the man whose crimes defined her life is not finished with her yet.Gossama will fight monsters, legends, and her own father to find what she has always wanted, a home among her people.Exile's Hope is the origin story of one of the Teresan Saga's most beloved characters — set fifty years before Return of the Lost Ones, in a world where the most dangerous warrior in the forest is the one nobody wanted.For readers who love Brandon Sanderson's worldbuilding and Robin Hobb's fierce, complex heroines. Read more