Mei sees the man still fighting his way back.
Ryuth should terrify her.
The wounded Zmaj warrior is locked in a cave beneath the Tribe’s settlement, trapped behind bars after years of Zzlo captivity, torture, and the brutal haze of the bijass. He snarls, rages, and attacks anyone who gets too close. Most of the Tribe sees only a danger waiting to break free.
Mei cannot make herself look away.
She hears the song he hums when he thinks no one is listening. She sees the flashes of awareness beneath the primal fury. She sees Ragnar’s grief for the brother he almost lost, and she knows Ryuth will be exiled or killed if someone cannot reach him in time.
So Mei keeps going back.
Day after day, she sits with the caged warrior everyone else has nearly given up on. She talks to him. Feeds him. Challenges him. Refuses to treat him like a monster, even when his golden eyes track her with terrifying hunger.
Ryuth does not remember everything he was.
But he knows Mei.
She is soft light in the dark. The only voice that calms the beast inside him. His treasure. The female he would cross Tajss’s deadly desert to protect, even if he has to steal her away from everyone else to do it.
When Ryuth escapes and takes Mei with him, trust becomes survival. The desert is merciless. The epis she needs to live is running out. Zemlja tunnels, poisonous heat, and Ryuth’s returning memories threaten them both. And the more of himself Ryuth remembers, the more convinced he becomes that he is not a wounded hero worth saving.
He believes he is the reason so many died.
He believes redemption means finishing the deadly mission he started long ago.
Mei believes he is wrong.
To save him, she will have to chase him into the heart of Tajss, face the zemlja queen, and prove that the man beneath the beast is not beyond love.
Because Ryuth was never hers to tame.
He was hers to bring home.
Dragon's Taming is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a caretaker heroine, a wounded and imprisoned Zmaj warrior, fated mates, Beauty and the Beast emotion, kidnapping and forced proximity, Zzlo trauma, lost memories, redemption, desert survival, zemlja danger, brother conflict, pregnancy, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after.