
Lotte Meer can do the one thing almost no one else can: speak to dragons. When the town of Morwassen’s Pass hires her to negotiate with a crimson terror extorting the city, she expects a tense compromise. What she finds instead is a dragon who speaks like a man, a demand for a lost magical artifact, and a civilian escort named Maryse whose quick hands and quicker heart pull Lotte in deeper than planned.
As pressure mounts from a ruthless new captain, a citywide evacuation, and a festival turned battlefield, family secrets crack the case wide open: the dragon is no stranger at all. Caught between duty and love, Lotte and Maryse must risk everything to stop a creature who won’t stop—before the hoard burns the world around them.
This is a story about courage and compromise, about chosen family, and about a fierce first love that refuses to back down—told with the urgency of flame and the tenderness of ash on the wind.