The Dragon's Reluctant Bride - A Forced Marriage Shifter Romance #974403

They did not ask for her consent. They simply left her at the mountain gate, dressed in white, with a wreath of burial flowers in her hair.

A sacrifice. A bride. A problem for the dragon king to deal with.
Carys had other plans.

She is a witch of the Briar Coven — a quiet, earth-bound healer with dirt under her fingernails and roots deep enough to hold a mountain together. She has no interest in dragon kings, obsidian thrones, or ancient treaties sealed with living flesh. She wants her apothecary, her valley, and her independence, in exactly that order.
What she gets is Tieran.
The Obsidian Heir is everything the legends warned her about. He is ancient, volcanic, and commanding a black fire so absolute it has scorched the history books. He rules his frozen peaks with the cold precision of a creature that has never once needed to be gentle, and he has zero patience for a reluctant bride who argues with him before breakfast, heals his wounded soldiers without being asked, and systematically refuses to be afraid of him.
He should have sent her back down the mountain the first morning.
He didn't.
Because something is rotting the leylines of the continent from the inside out — a creeping, parasitic Blight that respects no borders, no treaties, and no amount of dragon fire. Tieran's mountain is dying. Carys is the only living witch whose earth magic is strong enough to fight it. And the mating bond that snapped into place the moment she crossed his threshold has made returning her to the valley a biological impossibility.
They are bound. They are furious about it. And the Blight is spreading faster than either of them is willing to admit.

To save the continent, Carys will have to trust the monster who claimed her against her will. Tieran will have to admit that the stubborn, dirt-covered healer has walked straight past every wall he spent three centuries building and made herself at home in the ruins.
One of them will break first.
The mountain is betting on Carys.
The Dragon's Reluctant Bride is a full-length forced marriage fantasy romance featuring a dark, possessive dragon shifter who is thoroughly unprepared for a woman who talks back, a heroine who heals people for a living and is absolutely not above poisoning a god of war if he pushes her too far, a world-ending magical threat, and a slow-burn mating bond that burns hotter than obsidian fire. The steam is high, the tension is slow and delicious, and the emotional payoff hits exactly as hard as a dragon landing on granite.

If you devour dark fantasy romance with morally complex leads, lush world-building, forced proximity that turns combustible, and a love story built on mutual respect earned the hard way — this is your next obsession.
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