After rescuing a wounded dragon shifter from freezing blizzard drifts and sharing a single passionate encounter, Jessica finds herself abandoned in the snow. Months later, her reckless father sells her newborn son to underground traders, leaving her with an impossible ransom debt that forces her to seek work inside the imperial dragon fortress.
Hired as the sole caretaker immune to the prince's scorching flames, Jessica navigates palace hostilities and venomous royal schemers determined to banish her. She endures harsh suspicion from the frosty monarch, entirely unaware that the fire-breathing infant she rocks to sleep is the child stolen from her crib.
