The Dragon Warden's Stolen Heir - A Dragon Shifter Romantasy #1012148

She has heard dragons her whole life. He was sent to hunt the blood that lets her.

Elowen Marrick mucks out stalls below the king's dragon yard and keeps one promise to the man who raised her: never let anyone know that she can hear the great beasts speak. Then a blood-stone blazes like a forge in her hand, every chained dragon in Highcrown Yard lifts its head, and the old silver queen says the words that end her quiet life: We thought you burned.

Kael Draven is the King's Dragon Warden, a shifter bound by a blood oath to deliver every drop of Ashfall blood to the crown. He comes to her door at midnight with six soldiers and a rope. He leaves with her in his claws, flying north to his eyrie in the Skyreach, and tells the king she drowned.

Every lie he tells for her tightens a golden thread around both their wrists. Every lie sends the black oath-mark on his arm creeping closer to his heart. And when a hatchling cracks out of a six-year-dead egg at the sound of her voice, Elowen begins to understand that she was never a groom's girl at all.

But the king is patient. He has her best friend in his iron tower. And on Midwinter Eve, before the whole court, the stolen heir must walk into dragonfire, led by the Warden whose oath will kill him if he refuses.
 

• Enemies to lovers
• Fated mates and a bond that cannot lie
• Dragon shifter hero with a deadly oath
• Hidden heir of a fallen house
• Found family, including one very rude baby dragon
• Dual point of view, closed-door romance, happily ever after