They keep calling it just another dragon story. Stori Devayne knows better.
Stori makes her living retrieving magical property from institutions that had no right to steal it. As a spotted hyena shifter with a smart mouth, a criminal record, and a transformation curse that devours her memories, she has enough problems without adding an ancient dragon to the list.
Then one drop of her blood awakens Khrome.
Proud, powerful, and dangerously close to turning into living stone, Khrome is the last warrior of the Alizarin Flight. He claims Stori summoned him as her guardian. She claims she stole a rock and would like everyone to stop being dramatic.
Their accidental bond refuses to let them separate. It shares their pain, exposes their lies, and turns mutual irritation into a slow-burning attraction neither of them trusts.
But Saint Cinder has buried something monstrous beneath its glittering towers.
The city is powered by captive dragons.
Freeing them could destroy the hospitals, homes, and neighborhoods built upon their stolen fire. Leaving them chained would make Stori complicit in the same system that has controlled her body, erased her history, and weaponized her worst memories.
With ancient gods stirring, a media-made deity feeding on public outrage, and Stori’s own bloodline tied to the original betrayal, she and Khrome must decide what liberation should cost and who should be forced to pay it.
To save the dragons without sacrificing the city’s most vulnerable people, they will have to burn corrupt contracts, expose generations of lies, and choose each other without prophecy, ownership, or chains.
Because some stories are called myths only when the truth becomes inconvenient.
Just Another Dragon Story is a witty, emotionally layered urban fantasy romance featuring a Black heroine, an ancient dragon guardian, enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, found family, political intrigue, forgotten gods, a unique magic system, and a hard-won happily ever after.
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They keep calling it just another dragon story. Stori Devayne knows better.
Stori makes her living retrieving magical property from institutions that had no right to steal it. As a spotted hyena shifter with a smart mouth, a criminal record, and a transformation curse that devours her memories, she has enough problems without adding an ancient dragon to the list.
Then one drop of her blood awakens Khrome.
Proud, powerful, and dangerously close to turning into living stone, Khrome is the last warrior of the Alizarin Flight. He claims Stori summoned him as her guardian. She claims she stole a rock and would like everyone to stop being dramatic.
Their accidental bond refuses to let them separate. It shares their pain, exposes their lies, and turns mutual irritation into a slow-burning attraction neither of them trusts.
But Saint Cinder has buried something monstrous beneath its glittering towers.
The city is powered by captive dragons.
Freeing them could destroy the hospitals, homes, and neighborhoods built upon their stolen fire. Leaving them chained would make Stori complicit in the same system that has controlled her body, erased her history, and weaponized her worst memories.
With ancient gods stirring, a media-made deity feeding on public outrage, and Stori’s own bloodline tied to the original betrayal, she and Khrome must decide what liberation should cost and who should be forced to pay it.
To save the dragons without sacrificing the city’s most vulnerable people, they will have to burn corrupt contracts, expose generations of lies, and choose each other without prophecy, ownership, or chains.
Because some stories are called myths only when the truth becomes inconvenient.
Just Another Dragon Story is a witty, emotionally layered urban fantasy romance featuring a Black heroine, an ancient dragon guardian, enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, found family, political intrigue, forgotten gods, a unique magic system, and a hard-won happily ever after.