The heroine is purchased at a high-stakes mate auction by dragon lord Kaelen Ashfell, dedicating three years of her life to bearing and raising three healthy hatchlings inside his aerie. Her domestic devotion is brutally discarded when Kaelen’s glamorous first love reappears, prompting him to erase her name from the sacred clan ledger and assign her to his scarred brother Roran.
While Kaelen allows his mistress to ravage her nest and endanger the infants, he arrogantly assumes the heroine will return begging for scraps. Instead, she finds fierce, unwavering respect in Roran, a formidable warrior who shields her children with his life and teaches her what true mate protection looks like.
