Tender Cruelty by Katee Robert

Release date: December 2, 2025

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert brings the heat in this series of sizzling modern Greek myth retellings

The barrier that has protected Olympus for generations has fallen. The enemy has breached the gates and the Thirteen are scrambling to protect themselves, their loved ones, and the city they have been sworn to protect. At least they would be if they weren’t at each others’ throats instead.

Hera has no intention of letting her husband, Zeus, survive the oncoming storm. She will be the death of him, even if that means selling her very soul to see it done. But despite the white-hot hatred that burns between them, when Hera and Zeus are forced to work together in the first wave of the onslaught, enmity crystalizes into something brighter. Hotter. Just as likely to emulate them from the inside as it is to destroy their now-shared enemy.

Hera never bartered on falling in love with the man she married—the man she once swore to kill. But now, standing back-to-back in the ruins of Olympus, she may be forced to admit that she’s been wrong about Zeus all these years...and there may be something about their marriage worth saving if they can survive long enough to turn enemies into something more.