Elara Voss is a crime investigator who trusts evidence, instinct, and the dragon buried beneath her skin. Ritual murders, strange magical traces, and a trail of secrets are already enough to make her newest case dangerous. Then Lucien Vale complicates everything. He is a vampire, powerful enough to be a threat and compelling enough to become something far worse: the man fate refuses to let her ignore. Elara has spent years navigating a supernatural world full of shifters, witches, mages, vampires, and political factions that rarely agree on anything. She never expected her own bloodline to become part of the investigation. As the killings expose connections between species and old powers, clues begin pointing toward forgotten dragon history and questions no one has been able to answer. Elara may not be as alone as she once believed, and the truth about what survives in her blood could change the balance among every supernatural faction watching her. Lucien has secrets of his own, but the bond forming between them becomes harder to deny as danger closes in. Their attraction is inconvenient, politically explosive, and possibly tied to forces neither of them fully understands. To solve the murders, Elara must separate prophecy from manipulation, allies from opportunists, and destiny from the choices she actually wants to make. Because if the people hunting power discover what she is before she understands it herself, they will not simply come for Elara. They will come for every future her existence makes possible. And the vampire at her side may be the only person dangerous enough to help her protect it.
Elara Voss is a crime investigator who trusts evidence, instinct, and the dragon buried beneath her skin. Ritual murders, strange magical traces, and a trail of secrets are already enough to make her newest case dangerous. Then Lucien Vale complicates everything. He is a vampire, powerful enough ...