A steampunk fantasy adventure with shifters, magic, a side of romance,
and dragon-vs.-airship battles.
A dragon felon. A forsaken prince. A jaded airship captain. An explosion that costs them everything.
Dragonshifter convict Kesia Ironfire has one goal: to redeem herself as a soldier in the dragon-human war.
A rogue mission to spy on a new human airship should do the trick. Then the airship explodes into mysterious green smoke, ruining the mission–and earning death sentences for Kesia and her tactical partner Zephryn Nightstalker.
Desperate for answers about the green smoke, Kesia and Zephryn flee to the human military capital, where Captain Shance Windkeeper is furloughed after the destruction of his airship–and avoiding a most unwanted arranged marriage. Eager to discover what—and who—blew up his vessel, Shance is willing to help Kesia and Zephryn infiltrate High Command, as long as Kesia pretends to be Shance’s betrothed.
Kesia has never heard of a betrothal, but she can adapt to a meaningless human ritual.
But dark secrets emerge as Kesia searches for answers in the heart of High Command. Secrets that undermine her criminal status and the war itself.
After years of rebel spywork, Nula Thredsing is ready to claim her legacy.
If that legacy doesn’t kill her first.
As the Scepter of Commerce’s new liaison to dragons, she’s one step away from the old family seat on the city council. Then her first meeting with dragon diplomat Tiers Sunscaler is ambushed by enemy dragons—one of them Tiers’s former tactical partner.
At the same time, Nula and Tiers discover a startling connection: an irresistible embermate bond. While a political marriage suits Nula, consummation requires literal heart surgery that a human cannot survive.
And then a cat-dragon and a unicorn show up to help, of all the ridiculous things.
Nula must track down the rogue dragons, work with mysterious allies, and solve the problem of her mate bond before the escapable connection destroys her.
Good thing she’s used to impossible odds–and she has a dragon on her side.
One wild night, Shance Windkeeper discovers he’s married to a death unicorn.
But that’s the least of his troubles.
Now a rebel agent, Shance is working with dragonshifters Kesia Ironfire and Zephryn Nightstalker to end the dragon-human war. While on a mission to the Scepter of Knowledge, their team is hit with a devastating death unicorn attack.
Out of the wreckage a new ally emerges: Maira Ukerys, the death unicorn queen—and Shance’s long-lost wife.
Recently freed from captivity, Maira is fighting to regain control of her herd. Lurien Alistil, a rogue death unicorn, has bespelled the Scepter of Knowledge and taken Maira and Shance’s son hostage.
Then Kesia challenges Lurien to a public showdown over the fate of the city. However, Kesia lacks vital intel to succeed–and as the mate of Lurien’s greatest foe, Shance is the perfect prize to surrender and infiltrate Lurien’s lair.
But Lurien’s power is stronger and more insidious than they realize. And soon not even Shance’s newfound storm magic will be enough to stop her.
PG-13 for innuendo, bit of language, non-graphic violence, thematic elements involving war and death, and fade-to-black scenes.