Eva Kingsley

When dragons call, only the desperate dare to answer.

I was the queen’s favored maid—trusted, protected, invisible.

I was also the woman Prince Zaries hates most.

His fiancée died screaming beneath silver fire, and in his eyes, I am the reason she never came home. Whatever I once was to him is buried beneath grief and rage.

Redemption leaves me only one path.

I enter the Slayer Trials, a blood-bound contest where warriors vanish inside a living maze of magic, monsters hunt without mercy, and only five will ever escape.

I am not meant to survive.

Yet inside the maze, a voice awakens in my mind—ancient, knowing, dangerous. It warns me before death strikes. It bends the maze to my will. It promises to lead me to the silver dragon.

And to the truth.

Among the challengers stands Prince Zaries himself. Once my protector. Now my enemy. Hatred burns between us as fiercely as the desire neither of us dares to claim.

As blood spills and dragons’ scales are claimed, the line between hunter and prey begins to blur. The power inside me grows harder to deny—and harder to control.

To survive the Trials, I must decide what I am willing to sacrifice.

My redemption.
My humanity.
Or the man I was never meant to love.

Answer the call of dragons—
for not all who survive remain human.