She needed a dragon’s wings. Their devil caged her heart instead.
On the eve of my execution, I sealed my fate by signing a dark pact with Ilyatria’s accursed king.
My reprieve was short-lived; now I’m in a race against time, rotting from the inside out due to a hidden clause. To end the pact, I have to kill my father—the monster who ordered my death.
But our kingdom’s twisted magic protects him, and I’ll need an undying dragon’s power to do it. Yet every hour has me sickening further; I can’t bond a merciless dragon alone.
With no other options, I turn to Aelen, one of my people’s enemies and the strongest dragon trainer of Ilyatria—or so he says.
He’s brooding and spiteful, armed with sharp ears and a venomous tongue almost more vicious than the dragons themselves.
Despite our truce, he’s a constant thorn in my side, even sabotaging my training. He’s insufferable—and all too irresistible—but without him I’m dead.
My protector. My nightmare. He’s more than he’s letting on: an enigma hiding sinister magic and a fixation on keeping me with him, and away from completing my pact.
The further our lives intertwine, the more his lies unravel.
