They watched me break the wraith open in front of the entire academy.
Now the general who killed my mother is building a cage for what I am.
Seven years I was invisible. Ground crew. Calloused hands. The girl who cleaned dragon bones in the deep Tombs while something ancient hummed in her blood. That's over. Four Elderwyrms chose me... and the academy watched me purify a wraith with my bare hands.
General Thorne watched too. The man whose name sits on my mother's execution order recognized exactly what he was looking at.
Now the cage is closing. Medical holds. Surveillance. A military observer documenting every breath. Capital specialists testing my limits until I bleed. And behind the walls, a two-century trail of evidence proving the wraith crisis destroying the border settlements was manufactured - by the institution tightening its grip around my throat.
My wing holds the line:
Bastian - who burned his family name when the archive proved his bloodline built the machine that killed mine.
Leander - who mapped two centuries of genocide and is rebuilding everything he believed starting from us.
Sable - whose healing hands became something more when an Elderwyrm chose him through the bond we share.
Orion - who bonded with a shadow dragon in the dark and now sees the shape of what's growing in the deep.
Then I find her. My mother's spirit dragon - waiting seven years in a hidden crypt, still holding a bond that never severed.
The official story says my mother died a hero. The purge records say she was murdered. But the dragon who loved her says something worse.
She was taken alive. And the bond went silent.
Now Thorne is fabricating a treason case against a dead woman. He's given me until sunrise: submit to permanent military control of everything I am, or watch him erase her from history.
He thinks I'll break.
He's never heard the dead scream.
Dragonbound is a scorching fantasy why choose romance featuring dragon riders, a military academy under siege from within, a fierce heroine who won't kneel, an agonizing slow burn, a cliffhanger ending, and a guaranteed HEA for the series. Book 2 of the Dragonfall Academy series.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Dragon rider academies with deadly institutional stakes
- Why choose romance with four devoted, protective heroes
- Slow burn tension that refuses to break
- "Touch her and die" - but the Elderwyrms handle it
- Military conspiracies and two centuries of buried truth
- Found family forged under siege
- Spirit dragon lore and ancient bonds
- A strong heroine who holds the line when the institution comes for her
- Happily-ever-after guaranteed for the series
