MetalBound: A steamy Dragon Romance (Dragon Brides #1)

When the metal sings and the mountain stirs, Hollow Mountain awakens—and it demands a bride.

Maren never wanted glory. She was a blacksmith’s daughter with callused hands, a future already promised, and a life built on iron and certainty. Until the Choosing. Until her blood struck the ceremonial anvil and erupted in white-hot flame.

Forge-blooded.
Marked.
Claimed by the dragon.

Dragged from everything she knows, Maren is carried into Hollow Mountain to be the next sacrifice in a thousand-year cycle of prosperity and silence. But the monster waiting for her is not the beast she was taught to fear.

Darik—ancient, lonely, and cursed—remembers every face he has ever transformed into metal… except their names. His hands have shaped masterpieces and graves alike, and the curse that binds him hungers for Maren’s life next. He tells himself he only wants to teach her. To preserve her. To keep her safe.

She should run from him.
But the heat in his gaze sparks something fierce in her—fire answering fire, metal calling to metal.

He claims her to break his curse.
She touches him and begins to break his solitude.

As seven doomed days unwind, desire becomes trust, trust becomes defiance, and their connection awakens a power older than the mountain itself—one that could shatter the curse forever… or turn Maren into the copper statue she fears becoming.

When the curse rises and the kingdom demands obedience, Maren must
submit to the fate forged for her—
or reshape destiny itself with the dragon who would burn the world before he loses her.