They told her the bond was a gift. They were lying. And she's the only one who can hear the dragons scream.
Eira Quill is a lowborn scribe with a secret that could burn her alive: she can hear dragons. In a realm where the fae bond dragons for glory and power, the gift the Crown spent five hundred years hunting to extinction still runs in her blood — so she keeps it behind her teeth, copies their lies for a living, and pretends she can't hear the caged dragons grieving beneath the Academy floor.Then a condemned black dragon looks at her across the killing pit and speaks one word into her mind: murder.
When Eira forms the first true, un-forced bond in five centuries — with the very dragon the Academy sentenced to die — she becomes the most dangerous heretic in the kingdom. Because the sacred bond isn't a gift at all. It's a leash. It enslaves the dragons and burns out their riders, all to feed the immortal fae Crown, and Eira's bond is living proof.
The only thing standing between her and the executioner is the executioner himself: Castien Vorane — the cold, lethal Warden whose own house forged the leash, who is sworn to put her dragon down, and who is beginning to believe the same forbidden thing she does.
To save her dragon, her stolen brother, and every caged voice the realm refuses to hear, Eira will have to stop hiding, trust the one fae she should fear most, and learn to use the weapon they burned the world to silence.
Her voice.
Perfect for readers who devour the dragon-rider, fae-court romantasy of Rebecca Yarros, Sarah J. Maas, and Jennifer L. Armentrout.
- 🐉 Enemies-to-lovers, slow burn to open-door spice
🔥 A morally grey fae anti-hero with a sheathed heart
🖤 A snarky, ancient dragon and a fierce found family
⛓️ Hidden powers, a brutal magic academy, and a rotten empire to burn down
👑 Book One of an epic fae-and-dragon saga
Full-length romantasy (64,000+ words). Standalone love story with an HEA-in-progress and a saga-sized hook. Intended for readers 18+.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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