Dawn of the Dragon

Two people raised me, and one of them locked me inside a lamp on my wedding day.

Hazel Smithson works the evening shift at a Florida convenience store and counts nobody as family. Her parents left her at a hospital. Four sets of guardians later, she still waits to be sent away. So when Sam Sheridan says he loves her, she goes with him, and she walks into a candlelit dining room, a woman holding a dead baby, and a cut on her own wrist that brings the child back to life.

Logan de Marco has hunted for her for one month. He pulls her out of the swamp, carries her to his family's estate in Maine, and asks her to marry him before she learns what he is. He explains nothing. He will not let her step outside after dark. He tells her only that she has no idea what she can do.

She finds out on the path under a full moon, when her hands turn to claws and her skin turns to blue scales.

Then the two people who raised her fly in for the wedding. The man Hazel called a father seals her inside his lamp. The woman Hazel called a mother is a succubus, and she climbs into Hazel's husband's bed wearing Hazel's face.

Foundling heroine with hidden power. Instant marriage. Mate for life. A protective hero who will not explain himself. Genies, vampires, werewolves, and a rival who steals her face. Reads standalone.

Narrated by Victoria Pinder in an AI digital voice.