A midnight auction.
A woman in a silver mask.

Nysa only wanted one thing from Blackwater Palace:

Steal the egg.
Leave alive.
Never see Hayes Eryx again.

That plan fails immediately.

Now she is trapped inside a palace full of dragonfire politics, enemies who want her dead, and one terrifyingly possessive heir who looks at her like she already belongs to him.

Meanwhile the baby dragon ships them harder than the entire kingdom.