About this ebook
In the Ardenmoor Dominion, you are born with fire in your blood or you are nothing. Sable Vorryn, daughter of the most feared commander in the realm, was born with nothing at all. No ability. No bond. No flame. What she has instead is six years of ferocious engineering: heat-dissipating mesh, chemical coolant pouches, copper filaments that let her read volcanic heat the way a bonded rider feels it. She has built the external architecture of a power she does not possess, and she is going to walk it straight through an academy designed to expose exactly what she is.
One cracked seam on the Ashwalk and she should be dead. One demonstration she cannot fake and she should be expelled. Sable survives on arithmetic, nerve, and the refusal to let anyone see her flinch, including the severe, exacting officer whose attention she cannot afford and cannot seem to escape.
Then, in the eastern valley where no rider goes, an ancient dragon who has waited sixty years for something no one else can give presses a talon to the old scar on Sable's hand. And Sable, the girl with no fire, discovers that the thing she was missing was never a flaw. It was a door, into a history the Dominion buried, a network it has been lying about for generations, and a truth that could unmake everything the realm is built on.
A slow-burn, closed-door fantasy romance about belonging, found family, and the power in being exactly what they said you could never be. For readers who love clever heroines, quiet devotion, and dragons with very long memories.
They built a world with no place for her. She is going to redraw the map.
Cross the bridge. See what was waiting.
