BLURB

In a world where one’s birthplace determines their magic, Esmyria has yet to manifest. Orphaned as a child and abducted at sixteen, she has always had more questions about her past than answers. For eight years, she’s assisted a healer by day and spent her nights trying to prove her worth to the resistance; one that moves against a King who exploits dragons for war and treats its citizens with a merciless hand.

The day a foreign Prince and his ancient dragon crash into her pasture, bleeding out and hunted by the Voltyren Guard, something inside her awakens. 

Something that doesn't belong to Voltyren at all.

When the Guard descends on their small cottage in search of the enemy, she sees an opportunity to claw her way out of the life forced upon her. 

What starts as an escape on dragonback soon descends into a minefield of court politics, old magic, kingdoms on the brink of war, and a Queen with her own vision for Esmyria's future.

In secret, the Prince helps train the unveiled magic coursing through her veins; and the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore what's building between them. Because he's already promised to another, this makes every stolen glance not just foolish, but dangerous.

In this place, dragons aren't weapons. They're sacred, free, and bonded to riders whom they choose themselves. While Esmyria won’t shy away from the opportunity to bond her own, dragons do not suffer the unworthy.

As Esmyria learns to wield the power burning through her veins, she's not just uncovering her past; she's unraveling a conspiracy that long outdates her birth. 

One that many would kill to keep buried.