Dragon shifter Trinte Gleanscale has already lost his dignity, his innocence, and his left eye, and his father's return after eighteen years of no contact is threatening what is left of his mind.
Still reeling from a humiliating Weyr reunion, he wants only to disappear, but Fire Sprite Kyrielle Veritas will not leave him to that fate.
She rebuilt her life after years in shadow, and the sight of him consumed by shame and hatred overrides the promise they made months ago to stay apart.
Pressure drives the two of them into a partnership that turns fiercely intimate, and the private histories they guarded no longer stay hidden.
Together they learn that the people who once abused them can walk back into their lives, and that those people can be brought down all the same.
