For as long as anyone could remember, the Drakos and Petrakis families had been at war. In recent years, after too much bloodshed, the death of Andreas Petrakis’s wife, and two failed arranged marriages, resulting in the death of Tatiana Petraki, a war starts brewing again. But this time, it isn’t between the heads of the two families but between their youngest sons as they wage war against each other with a foreign Black woman caught in the middle. To return to her life back in America, Raelyn Armstead played a game with the dark, mischievous Leonidas Petrakis and lost. Not only did she lose her best friend, but she lost the man she had fallen for, Nikos Drakos, Leonidas’s sworn enemy in the dangerous blood war brewing in Athens between two notorious drug lords. But though Raelyn lost the first round, Leonidas already sets the next game in motion, and Raelyn is determined not to lose again. She will win against Leonidas, the maddening devilish man driving her insane, and she will Nikos’s heart back. But little does she know that another player has entered the game, and he will get his revenge against his enemy and the woman who broke his heart. It is now an all-out psychological love war between Raelyn, Leonidas, and Nikos as they all try to win in the dangerous game Leonidas orchestrated, but there can only be one winner in the end. Leonidas wants Raelyn’s heart. Raelyn wants freedom from Leonidas’s chains. Nikos wants revenge. Who will win? Runner cannot be read as a stand-alone. Survivor must be read first. If you want a better reading experience, it’s best to start with Savior, the first book. *Runner is the second book of a trilogy within the Blood War Series, but do not fret. The third book comes out the following month after Runner’s release.