Quill Aster plans to keep his head down at Widdershins Academy, finish the course, and pull his parents' failing potion shop into this century.
That plan falters when Aeron Pyre arrives, the first red dragon at the academy in two hundred years and grandson of the dragon who leads the Elder Council.
Quill wants nothing from the arrogant dragon who keeps appearing on his running route, across the library table, and in every doorway, yet Aeron recognizes the mouthy ginger witch as the one mate a dragon chooses for a life of centuries.
At eighty-five and still young by dragon reckoning, Aeron hides the bond, knowing a witch's life would be only a blink beside his own.
While the academy treats him like a trophy and his grandfather treats him like a message, something keeps testing the wards, each breach harder and every answer from the Elder Council thinner.
When those wards finally fail, the truth behind the attack stands far closer to Aeron than either of them can survive believing.
