The Gilded Claim

He came to end a war. He stayed for the woman they tried to sell him.

Nash Cole walked into the Ashen Eyrie eyes open. Clutch Lord Aurelian's offer was gilded and rotten at once: take his daughter Selene as claimed mate, be named Prime, and burn Kael's rebellion down. A leash dressed as a crown.

Selene Ashworth was raised to be traded. A seer who reads the future in smoke and pays for every vision in blood, she has seen the one future where loving Nash kills her. She chooses it anyway. On the altar, before every lord of the Concord, she speaks her own vows and turns her father's binding into a declaration of war.

Now they are outlaws with a price on both their heads, a storm host at their heels, and a wedding that detonated the political order. And on a quiet porch at night, a raven delivers a letter in his mother's handwriting, and everything Nash thought he knew about the fire that made him starts to burn.

The Gilded Claim is the fourth book in the Emberbound saga, a dark romantasy of dragons, claimed mates, and explicit heat. The fire proposes. She disposes.