Title: BLOOD & FIRE, ASH & BONE
Genre: Adult Fantasy Romance
Length: 100,000 words
Status: Complete & Polished
Taming of the Shrew’s fiery enemies-to-lovers clashes with the blood-magic of Mercedes Lackey’s Obsidian Trilogy in this twisted tale of revenge and sacrifice set in a world once dominated by dragons.
Kinra’s blood teems with dragon fire, and so does her son’s. After faking her young boy’s death to keep him safe, she’s sold by her greedy, skeznit uncle as mistress to the King of the Dragon Throne. No matter how many times she tries to escape, King Darian and his soldiers are one step ahead, cutting off her path at every turn. Kinra refuses his advances any way she can, but when Darian offers a deal for her freedom, three days in his company doesn’t seem so bad. Except day one places her in a marriage contract to Darian’s brother—a tyrant who tortures women for the magic in their blood.
Darian paid Kinra’s uncle a hefty sum of silver to keep her out of his brother’s clutches. But one kick to the face from the spitfire red-head, and all he desperately wants is Kinra in his arms. When his brother’s emissaries threaten him with a magical contract for Kinra that can’t be destroyed, it puts his kingdom under threat of invasion if he doesn’t let her go.
But Kinra will never concede to the demands of either man.
Despite her growing affection for Darian, the quest to reclaim her son occupies her heart. When Darian’s tyrant brother abducts her son, she’ll gladly suffer his lust for blood-magic to keep her child safe. Except the tyrant’s army is already at the kingdom’s borders, and they’ve brought a new threat—a dragon the size of a city who will kill the king and his citizens to bond Kinra’s blood, all in the name of a master who will use her power to subjugate the lands of Arånor. As war tears Kinra and Darian apart, they have to fight their way back to one another and save the kingdom to have any chance of rescuing her son before the enemy strips his blood away.