Why we’re excited
Ydra commands the queen's archers and keeps a harem mainly as a shelter for boys who need one. Sent to guard Prince Canus after a stalker leaves him a bouquet of severed fingers, she decides the war camp is a fine place to kidnap a husband, which by her people's custom is how marriage works.
Second in Tricia Levenseller's Wrath and Fury series, with new leads, though it follows on from book one, so read that first. Levenseller is known for Daughter of the Pirate King and The Shadows Between Us. This one is adult, with explicit content and dark themes.
On our most-anticipated list since 22 October 2026. See all the most anticipated books →
What to know about How Rage Burns
How Rage Burns is Book 2 in the Wrath and Fury series. New readers should begin with Book 1, What Fury Brings (we have reviewed it). 1 of the 2 books in the series have a full review here.
What Fury Brings is the one Tricia Levenseller book we have reviewed, at 4 out of 5.
Readers have saved it often enough to put it at No. 17 on our list of June 2027’s most-anticipated releases.
From the publisher
#1 New York Times-bestselling author Tricia Levenseller returns with another dark, sexy romantasy featuring a powerful female warrior charged to protect the prince who once rejected her from a deadly stalker.
Ydra is known for two things: her skills with a bow and her unusual harem. For years, Ydra has performed her duties as commander over the queen’s armies while using her harem as a front to provide safety and stability to young boys who need it. When she needs actual companionship, she frequents the local brothels, but she’s losing her taste for docile Amarran men.
Canus, third-born prince of Brutus, has been fighting a darkness inside him, and now that darkness has attracted foul attention. When an “admirer” leaves a bouquet of fingers in his bedroom as a courting gift, he’s disturbed, but not worried about his safety—he’s headed to war after all. Surely no one would bother to follow him across country lines.
When Princess Olerra asks Ydra to follow the prince to war and keep him safe, she agrees. After witnessing her friend’s happiness over her new marriage, Ydra decides it’s time for her to find and kidnap a husband, per Amarran tradition. A Brutish war camp is the perfect hunting ground. The problem is that Canus fights her every step of the way. The prince feels he doesn’t need protection (he absolutely does), especially from a woman who seems to bring out a hunger in him that could lead to Canus losing himself to his darkness entirely.
How Rage Burns is an adult romance novel with graphic sexual content and darker themes that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Please see the author's note at the beginning of the book.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read How Rage Burns yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
