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The Last Trial
"The truth is a hard thing to set aside, even for appearance’s sake.”
The Heir of Avus, left to deal with the fallout of the Champions' success in the Trials, finds himself caught between an impending House war and a brewing rebellion. With a Patriarch intent on launching a brutal crusade, the lower rings on the verge of a riot, and ancestral madness returning to wreak havoc on the present, he has his hands full. As tensions only rise in a city bent on its own destruction, Milo starts to believe he’s the only man still trying to save it.
“Wanting something and having the courage to reach out and take it were two entirely different things."
Olympia was never very good at doing what she was told. With Dante and Adrian gone, she’s determined to discover what both the Vipers and the Bexleys were hiding. A Third Ringer couldn’t defeat all ten Trials without keeping a secret or two. But as Olympia uncovers the truth about the Champions’ lives in Sanctuary, she only finds herself with more questions and a set of unlikely allies. The city is falling apart and, somehow, Olympia might be the only one who can pull it back together again.
The Last Trial is a companion novel to The Second Sanctum and is intended to be read either after or in tandem with book two of The Sanctum Series. It covers events occurring within Sanctuary at the same time as the events in The Second Sanctum.
The Heir of Avus, left to deal with the fallout of the Champions' success in the Trials, finds himself caught between an impending House war and a brewing rebellion. With a Patriarch intent on launching a brutal crusade, the lower rings on the verge of a riot, and ancestral madness returning to wreak havoc on the present, he has his hands full. As tensions only rise in a city bent on its own destruction, Milo starts to believe he’s the only man still trying to save it.
“Wanting something and having the courage to reach out and take it were two entirely different things."
Olympia was never very good at doing what she was told. With Dante and Adrian gone, she’s determined to discover what both the Vipers and the Bexleys were hiding. A Third Ringer couldn’t defeat all ten Trials without keeping a secret or two. But as Olympia uncovers the truth about the Champions’ lives in Sanctuary, she only finds herself with more questions and a set of unlikely allies. The city is falling apart and, somehow, Olympia might be the only one who can pull it back together again.
The Last Trial is a companion novel to The Second Sanctum and is intended to be read either after or in tandem with book two of The Sanctum Series. It covers events occurring within Sanctuary at the same time as the events in The Second Sanctum.
432 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2025
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A.N. Horton
14 books116 followersA. N. Horton is a two-time award-winning author living in Nashville, TN with her husband, children, and moderately chunky Corgi. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, baking more cookies than her family can eat, and plotting crimes against her characters. Best known for crafting characters that steal her readers’ hearts as much as they shatter them, A. N. Horton is a cross-genre writer focused mainly on fantasy and romance with her upcoming urban fantasy series, The Third Ring, and her soon to be released historical romance novel, A Promise Kept.
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December 23, 2025
This is the companion novel to The Second Sanctum, and I loved getting to spend more time with these side characters and delve deeper into who they are. And see what was going on in Sanctuary! I really enjoyed seeing another side of both Milo and Olympia, and I’m hoping we’ll get more of them in book 3!
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