A nameless thief from the Cinder Warrens expects punishment when the Ashwardens catch her stealing food. She does not expect the empire to drag her to the Dreadspire, where prisoners are thrown into arena games beside chained dragons and survival is treated as public entertainment. The empire believes people like her are disposable. The dragons disagree. Her strange ability to sense and calm the creatures quickly makes her useful to Rhaelor Drakemere, a celebrated champion whose power and position hide vulnerabilities of his own. Their uneasy arrangement gives her a temporary path away from execution, but training inside the Dreadspire reveals that the arena is only one piece of a much larger machine. Serava, the hard-edged trainer of the women's barracks, keeps secrets. Lucar, a silent and dangerous figure moving prisoners through hidden routes, is more than he appears. Rebels are gathering beyond the empire's reach, while fae accused of defying imperial law are being broken and fed into spectacles designed to erase resistance. As trust grows between the heroine and Rhaelor, she must decide whether survival is enough when the dragons, prisoners, and forgotten bloodlines around her are all being used as weapons. The Emberbound Arena is a dark dragon fantasy romance filled with deadly tournaments, imprisoned dragons, rebellion, hidden sanctuaries, forbidden magic, political cruelty, dangerous attraction, and a heroine who discovers that the gift making her valuable to the empire may also make her a threat to everything it has built.
A nameless thief from the Cinder Warrens expects punishment when the Ashwardens catch her stealing food. She does not expect the empire to drag her to the Dreadspire, where prisoners are thrown into arena games beside chained dragons and survival is treated as public entertainment. The empire bel...