The Iron Rose: Volume 1

For the people of the city, only death lies beyond the wall. But for one girl--freedom. With the glory of the gods on one side of campus and the medieval barracks on the other, Gudomlay is trapped between the stars and stripes. As an orphan being raised by a stripe-class professor, she herself should also be a stripe. But as a ward of the state whose education is being funded by the rich, she is labeled a star. Things get interesting though when her best friend, a star, falls for a stripe. Gudomlay sees this as an opportunity to bring the sides together, but when she blacks out over a friend being bullied, she realizes she's got bigger problems. She needs to get a handle on her berserker gene or risk being found out. But she's not putting in the effort required of her to improve. Not until two men who should hate each other team up to save her from an attack that leaves one of them almost dead. Now, she's forcing herself to strengthen her body and resolve and become the hero the professor has always told her she would one day become. But the end goal isn't to save other people. It's to get out of the city. They say only death lies beyond the wall, but for Gudomlay--it's freedom.