Tormented by her cruel stepmother and treacherous stepsister, Silver Dragon heiress Freya endures public ridicule during her clan's sacred mate-selection ceremony. Her faithless fiancé schemes to humiliate her, causing her ceremonial token to fall upon Oberon, a branded slave kneeling in chains. Rather than weeping before the mocking court, Freya honors the binding ritual and escorts her penniless new husband to an isolated mountain refuge.
What Freya mistakes for an unfortunate laborer is secretly the true Black Dragon King investigating corruption among the elders. When her vindictive family strips her scales to steal her maternal inheritance, Oberon sheds his humble mortal disguise to unleash cataclysmic retribution. Freya discovers the quiet outcast she protected with her life possesses absolute dominion over the dragon realm.
