Fire-Sealed

She entered the academy to steal a royal seal. Instead, the oldest dragon in Cindervale chose her.

Rhaena Emberhold has survived the furnace districts by trusting three things.

Her knives.

Her instincts.

And absolutely no one connected to the Crown.

Breaking into Ashglass Academy should have been another job.

Steal the royal fire-seal.

Collect the money.

Disappear before anyone important realised a thief had walked through their most protected halls.

Then Rhaena finds a wounded cadet with a device buried in his chest, a hidden network draining fire from dragons and an archive containing the name of the mother who vanished when Rhaena was a child.

The fire-seal does not let her leave.

It wakes.

So does Azheryn.

The oldest dragon in Cindervale has spent eighty-seven years chained beneath the academy, her fire stolen by the same royal system that claims dragons are protected.

And she chooses Rhaena.

The man standing between Rhaena and the tribunal is Prince Pyrran Pyrefall.

Dragon rider.

Royal heir.

Future ruler of the institution responsible for everything Rhaena is beginning to uncover.

He should be her enemy.

Instead, Pyrran becomes the first person inside the Crown willing to question what his family built.

Their investigation reveals missing cadets, secret fire reserves, dragon siphons and a war system that has survived for generations by turning obedience into duty.

Then the tribunal produces a law written before Rhaena ever entered the academy.

A political union between the royal heir and whoever awakened the ancient firebond.

The Crown calls it protection.

Rhaena recognises another chain.

But when she and Pyrran rewrite the terms themselves, their forced alliance becomes something far more dangerous to the people trying to control them.

A choice.

Their attraction is real.

Their trust is becoming harder to deny.

And every time their fire touches, the old magical network learns something new about the bond growing between them.

To free Azheryn and expose the truth, Rhaena and Pyrran will have to dismantle a system that reaches through the academy, the royal Houses and Pyrran's own blood.

But destroying the first vaults only reveals a larger threat.

Because the fire buried beneath Cindervale was never waiting only for Rhaena.

It has been waiting for an heir.

And by the time Pyrran discovers what the Crown designed him to become, dragons far beyond the border have already begun answering his fire.

Fire-Sealed is an adult dragon rider romantasy featuring a thief heroine, dragon prince, ancient dragon bond, political betrothal, academy conspiracy, forbidden fire magic, sharp banter, dangerous attraction, hidden experiments, royal betrayal and a romance built around consent rather than ownership.

Book One of The War of Broken Wings. Rhaena and Pyrran choose each other, but their war, their evolving bond and their complete series HEA continue in Book Two, The Inferno Heir.