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Valiant Series

Lesley Livingston
The Valiant by Lesley Livingston
The Defiant by Lesley Livingston
The Triumphant by Lesley Livingston

Valiant Series : Titles in Order

Book 3
The final book in the Valiant series takes Fallon and her warrior sisters on an epic journey from the corrupt Roman Republic to the wonder of the ancient world: Alexandria, Egypt.

In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon’s love Cai has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar’s gladiators.

Amid fighting for Cai’s freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar’s enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on his fearsome gladiatrices. When Caesar is murdered by these conspirators, Fallon and the girls lose any sort of protection they once had. Fallon also realizes that the foreign queen Cleopatra is now in grave danger.

Fallon rallies her war band and Cai’s friends to get Cleopatra out of the city, and the group heads to the safety of Cleo’s homeland, Alexandria, Egypt. Once there, the gladiatrices are promised a place of honor in the queen’s elite guard, but is that what any of them really want?
Book 2
In this sequel to the historical fantasy The Valiant, the darling of the Roman Empire is in for the fight of her life as love and political power struggles collide.

“[For] fans of the 2017 Wonder Woman movie and those looking for intelligent and powerful women who glory in their strength and abilities.”—Booklist

“Be brave, gladiatrix . . . And be wary. Once you win Caesar’s love, you’ll earn his enemies’ hate.”

Fallon was warned.

Now she is about to pay the price for winning the love of the Roman people as Caesar’s victorious gladiatrix. Fallon thought she’d won her freedom, but choosing to stay comes at a cost. She and her warrior sisters are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy. In the middle of the night, the Ludus Achillea falls under siege and only Fallon and a lucky few are able to flee.

Together, they embark on a mission to take back the home Fallon has fought so hard for, and to free their fellow gladiatrices. But dark conspiracies and vicious power struggles confront Fallon at every turn, threatening not just her honor, and her love for Roman soldier Cai—but the very heart of the ancient Roman Empire.

On the journey that will define her future, the only people who might possibly help the girl known as Victrix and her sisters are a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.

The only trouble is, they might just kill her first.
Book 1
A fierce Celtic princess is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators where she will have to fight for her survival both in and out of the arena.

“Spectacular, brutal, tender, and romantic.”—Mary E. Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of the Remnant Chronicles

“Has everything I love in a book: danger, violence, and a badass protagonist with a sword.”—Julie Kagawa, New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Fey series

Princess. Captive. Gladiator. Always a warrior.

Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the legendary warrior Sorcha, and the sworn enemy of Julius Caesar.

When Fallon was a child, Caesar’s armies invaded her homeland, and her beloved sister was killed in battle.

Now, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is eager to follow in her sister’s footsteps and earn her place in the fearsome Cantii war band. She never gets the chance.

Fallon is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators—owned by none other than Julius Caesar. In a cruel twist of fate, the man who shattered Fallon’s family might be her only hope of survival. Now Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries and deadly fights—in and out of the arena. And perhaps the most dangerous threat of all: her forbidden yet irresistible feelings for Cai, a young Roman soldier.