Arranged for the Dragon Lord: An Arranged Marriage, Slow Burn, Grumpy to Sunshine Dragon Shifter Romance (Dragon Kings of Ashenmoor #3)
Ember Blackwood
She wasn't supposed to be his. She was supposed to be a political arrangement — a folklorist with the linguistic expertise to decode Ashenmoor's failing ward-texts, married off to the Lord of Ironhold as part of a diplomatic bargain she didn't fully understand. Convenient. Temporary. Manageable.
Then the mate bond ignites, and nothing about Sienna Okafor is manageable.
"You're telling me I've been married , actually, legally married, to a man who turns into a forty-foot dragon and communicates primarily through furniture construction."
"The workbench was structurally necessary."
"It was a love letter."
"...It was a structurally necessary love letter."
Draven hasn't let anyone close in 190 years — not since his designs killed his father and broke the only friend he ever had. He leads Ironhold through competence and silence, building things that last because the alternative is remembering the things that didn't. He doesn't need a mate. He needs the Veil stabilised, the ward-texts decoded, and the woman who smells like warm earth after rain to stop humming in his corridors before his hands do something his engineering can't calculate.
Sienna has spent her life translating other people's stories. Half-Nigerian, half-Scottish, raised between two continents and fluent in the art of making everyone else feel at home while never quite belonging anywhere herself. She came to the Scottish Highlands for a research fellowship. She got an ancient dragon kingdom, a marriage she didn't agree to, and a husband whose written notes say everything his voice can't, and whose hands on her skin run three degrees too hot and exactly right.
But the Veil is failing. The last Warden is dead, and the ward-texts Sienna is racing to decode hold the only key to Ashenmoor's survival. An outside investigator is circling closer to the thermal anomaly that shouldn't exist. Clan politics are fracturing under the weight of three human-dragon bonds in one generation. And the restoration protocol requires Sienna to walk into a lethal energy field armed with nothing but her voice and a bond she's only just learned to trust.
Draven would burn the Veil to ash before he lets her enter that field. Sienna would walk through fire before she lets another person decide what her voice is for.
Five clans. Ancient politics. A hidden civilisation in the Scottish Highlands older than human memory. And a love story written in forge-heat and sound — between a man who builds and a woman who speaks, learning that some things can't be engineered. They have to be trusted.
She didn't ask for a dragon lord. He didn't want a human mate. The bond doesn't care. And the Veil won't wait.
* Dragon shifter romance
* Fated mates
* Arranged marriage
* Slow burn
* Grumpy/sunshine
* Age gap (centuries)
* Forced proximity
* Curvy heroine
* Explicit heat / steamy
* Guaranteed HEA
* Series: Dragon Kings of Ashenmoor (interconnected standalones)
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The 'Dragon Kings of Ashenmoor' series
0.00 · 0 ratings- Dragon King's Forbidden Mate: A Rejected Fated Mates, Enemies to Lovers, Age Gap Dragon Shifter Romance by Ember Blackwood Book #1
- Dragon Warrior's Reluctant Mate: A Grumpy Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Fated Mates Dragon Shifter Romance by Ember Blackwood Book #2
- Arranged for the Dragon Lord: An Arranged Marriage, Slow Burn, Grumpy to Sunshine Dragon Shifter Romance by Ember Blackwood Book #3
- The Dragon's Secret Heir: A Second Chance, Secret Baby, Fated Mates Dragon Shifter Romance by Ember Blackwood Book #4
