Humiliated at the altar when her cowardly fiancé dumps her for a scheming stepsister, human noblewoman Nora Vale is dragged into the courtyard to be disowned. In that moment of intense anguish, her dormant celestial lineage erupts, encasing her skin in shimmering crimson scales and triggering a deafening roar across the heavens as Dragon King Alder Rook descends to claim her.
Alder declares Nora to be the prophesied dragon bride whose mystical aura can save their dying realm, demanding she return with him to the high aeries. But Nora refuses to transition from an obedient human wife to a caged dragon consort, insisting that even a god must earn her devotion. As rival kingdoms mobilize for war, Alder is forced to bow his knee to win her hand.
