The Dragon Remembered

Sorren Voss survived her first war as a dragon rider. Now she has to stop two kingdoms from starting the wrong one.

Vessa remembers what they have forgotten.

Four centuries ago, Sorren's Titan dragon fought a war the modern kingdoms know only in fragments. Now ancient magic is stirring, old defenses matter again, and armies are gathering while the real danger moves beyond the history they were taught.

Sorren refuses to wait for someone else to discover the mistake.

With Vessa, a white flag, and a warning from an eight-hundred-year-old mage who remembers the old war, she crosses the mountains into the Bear Kingdom. Waiting there are armored Bear Spirits, a fortified capital built to survive attacks from the sky, and rulers with every reason to distrust the forces gathering near their borders.

Sorren came to prevent a battle. To do that, she has to turn suspicion into diplomacy, diplomacy into alliance, and an ancient dragon's memories into something two kingdoms are willing to believe.

Kael knows exactly what the mission could cost her.

He is no longer the man Sorren is falling for. He is the man she loves, the man whose room is already half hers, and the partner she reaches for without hesitation.

Their desire is easy.

Their disagreement is not.

Kael wants to protect her from risks he understands too well. Sorren knows that being loved cannot mean surrendering the right to choose which risks are hers to take. War has changed both of them, but neither intends to let fear decide what their relationship becomes.

Meanwhile, Sorren's dragon bond with Vessa keeps deepening. In flight and aerial combat, rider and dragon are learning to recognize the same opening almost before either has finished seeing it. That growing tactical bond may be exactly what the coming war demands.

Because the enemy Vessa remembers is not returning unchanged.

Ancient strategies are failing. Old threats are adapting. And whatever comes next will test more than dragonfire, military strength, or love.

Vessa remembers the last war.

Sorren intends to make sure the kingdoms survive the next one.