Edric never expected his own ambitious father to drug him with enchanted philters and surrender him as a sacrificial offering to appease the terrifying Dragon King. The ancient curse binding the draconic ruler dictates that intimate union will heal the sovereign's affliction while slowly draining the sacrificial mortal's life force to nothingness.
As the full moon approaches and Edric's body weakens with every passing night, an unexpected tenderness emerges between the doomed youth and the lonely beast. Refusing to purchase his immortality at the cost of the man he has grown to love, the monarch risks his own demise to break the ancient sacrificial cycle.
