The Dragon's Bargain

<p>For three thousand years the Council of Magisters has ruled with an iron fist exterminating dragons and shadow-mages alike. Vesper Ashford is the last of her kind-a seventeen-year-old shadow-mage who watched her family die for the crime of existing. Draven is the last dragon cursed to a half-life of pain and imprisonment finally facing execution after three millennia of suffering.</p><p> </p><p>When Vesper sees the smoke rising over Thornhaven she should run. Instead she walks into the execution square and does the impossible: she saves the dragon forging a forbidden bond that connects their souls and makes them partners in magic war and destiny.</p><p> </p><p>Hunted by the most powerful empire in the world Vesper and Draven must build an alliance of the desperate and the outcast-shadow-mages in hiding dragons thought extinct creatures from the Deep Realms and humans who dream of freedom. Together they'll challenge an empire fight a war that spans continents and build a new world from the ashes of the old.</p><p> </p><p>But the Dragon's Bargain demands a price. As Vesper and Draven navigate political intrigue magical warfare and the slow-building love that grows between them they'll discover that some partnerships transcend even death itself.</p><p> </p><p>Perfect for fans of slow-burn romance found family and epic fantasy with heart. <em>*The Dragon's Bargain*</em> is a novel about love resistance and the magic that happens when two outcasts choose each other against all odds.</p>