fantasy · medieval setting · dragon tamer · cruel king · possessive · protective · scars · arranged marriage · romance · learning to love
In a land where dragon silhouettes darken ancient peaks, a king holds the frozen North beneath a fist of iron. Jeon Jungkook, the Dragon Tamer, is a creature of legend and whispered terror, his body a chronicle of old wars, his heart a citadel locked shut by grief. At twenty-eight, he is a man forged in steel and cruelty, his childhood and his mother both lost to the same cycle of violence that now defines his rule. The world believes him incapable of love, a permanent shadow upon a throne of ice. But when the king of the south offers his own daughter, you, as a sacrificial token to save her city, the axis tilts. Jungkook accepts the offer, not from malice, but because in her eyes he catches a reflection of a lost, gentle warmth. As the caravan bears north into the biting wind, toward his…