No dragon surrenders his treasure without a fight—and no witch ever forgives her trespassers.

Kaelra survived ten brutal years on the western frontier after her father cast her out for a crime she still didn’t remember. Instead of breaking, she found peace, freedom away from his cruelty, and hope that she would one day fulfill her mother’s dying wish.

Now, with the frontier all but conquered, her father orders her home to sell her into a claimed mate bond at the end of the Calling: the annual, week-long rite where shifters and witches seek their fated mates. 

Kaelra knows his plan will fail. She just never imagined that failure would start in the eyes of Ruhkaal, the Elemental Dragon King of Fire and the Southern Crown Prince of the Moongrave Empire. 

She is the daughter of his enemy and his only salvation.

Cursed and running out of time, Ruhkaal will stop at nothing to have the one who speaks to his soul and soothes the wretched curse threatening to consume him.

As old and new enemies conspire to bring the decades-long enmity between the Empire and the Southern Clan Council to a head, Kaelra and Ruhkaal’s bond could unite the southern continent…

Or burn it to ash. 

TW: Mention CA, Mentioned Trafficking, Attempted SA, Graphic Violence

Book 1 of The Brightest Flame Series (Torc and Brand Universe)

The Dragon's Mistress

She hesitated, looking between her cousin and Kaelen. She wanted to talk to him. The stench of blight and the obvious corruption festering in him aside, he was still her brother. Her twin. It had been so long since they had even been in the same area, but she knew better than to try because the look...

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