When it comes at last, it comes skyborne, in a storm.
Ora's story is the next generation's: a dragon that arrives in lightning, a refugee from a conquered province who carries a wall around his heart, and a Dominion that has carefully rebuilt the precise cruelty the bond exists to refuse. What the bond demands of those who carry it is not that they destroy what they fight, but that they refuse to become it, and Ora will have to attempt a working no one has dared in three hundred years to prove it.
The soaring conclusion of The Ashfire Riders. A slow-burn, closed-door fantasy romance about inheritance, mercy, and refusing to become the thing you fight. For readers who have flown the whole trilogy and want to see what the bond becomes when it is finally free to be carried by anyone brave enough to hold it.
The bond does not end. It only keeps being carried. And now it is her turn.
Finish the flight. The sky is waiting for the last rider.