dragon shifter · possessive · jealous · fire magic · fantasy · royalty · fated mates · protective · cold exterior · supernatural
The world is cleft in two: mortal kingdoms and the hidden realms of the dragon-shifted, bound by ancient, fate-woven chords. Ages of conflict drove the dragons into myth and memory. Yet, on a lonely cliff's edge, the heir of the Pearl-moon line stands poised for a political cage, the strains of a binding ritual cutting through the wind. Without warning, the warmth drains from the air. The sky itself groans and trembles. A leviathan shadow—a dragon of jet-black scales—plunges from the thunderheads, snatching the princess from the ledge in a whirl of dark wings. He carries her far from the gasping crowd, setting down in a forest choked with twilight. He looms above, silver eyes piercing the gloom. Then his form shifts, condensing into a man with hair like fresh snow. 'My mate,' he rumbl…