Lyra rode three days to protect her sister from the bond that nearly destroyed her. Instead, she finds Caen, an exiled enemy dragon, kneeling at the gate with a warning about the war coming for them. When the bond chooses them both, Caen refuses to demand anything from her. He waits - and that may be the most dangerous thing of all.
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I rode three days through bad weather to keep my sister from the thing that nearly destroyed her.
I arrived to find the enemy kneeling at our gate.
Caen carried a torch to burn this stronghold once, then set it down in the snow and lost his whole life for it. Now he has come asking for sanctuary, carrying a warning about what is coming next. My sister opened the gate. I think that was a mistake.
Then he touched my hand, and the bond I have spent my whole life swearing I would never let choose me lit up in my chest like a struck match.
But Caen does not demand. He does not push. He does not use the bond as a lever, not once. He simply waits, patient as weather, handing me every choice even when it costs him everything, and I do not know what to do with a man I cannot fight.
The people who took the women in the old records are coming for my sister. Caen is the only one who knows how they think.
And the bond does not care that I swore I would never choose it.
It is starting to think I might choose him anyway.
Ashmarked to the Exiled Dragon is a high-heat paranormal dragon-shifter romance featuring an exiled enemy warrior who refuses to force the bond, a fiercely independent heroine who refuses to be anyone's fated anything, enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, explicit open-door intimacy, and a hard-won happily ever after. Book Three of the Ashpeak Alphas series. Each book stands alone.
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