The Dragon Who Bound Her Oath

Talia Maren has negotiated six surrenders, three royal marriages, and one bloodless coup.

The oath beneath Vowspire is the first contract that answers her in a dragon's voice.

As a senior imperial diplomat, Talia survives by promising powerful people exactly what they want to hear and nothing they can prove she meant. But during a refugee hearing, her blood awakens Varek, an elder dragon chained beneath the High Court and forced to power the empire's most merciless laws.

A forgotten clause binds them as witnesses. Neither can surrender the other to imperial custody. Breaking the bond would cost Talia her voice and Varek his claim to the stolen Oath Hoard.

Their only path into the court's sealed First Chamber is a carefully negotiated marriage.

Every term is written. Every boundary is clear. Their growing attraction is the one thing neither of them knows how to control.

Varek believes every vow eventually becomes a weapon. Talia has spent her life treating vulnerability as a mistake waiting to be exploited. When the court uses her family's inherited debt to turn their magical bond against them, Talia must risk speaking without an escape clause, and Varek must decide whether a promise freely given can become something other than a cage.

Her blood bound them.

Their marriage gave them power.

Love will have to be chosen without a single line of magic.

The Dragon Who Bound Her Oath is Book 2 of Dragons of the Shattered Hoard. It delivers a complete, emotionally intense, closed-door romance within the series' continuing rebellion and is best read after The Dragon Who Kept Her Memories.