I needed to claim him like I needed to breathe. - Nicholin - I never wanted a mate. I’d been alone for hundreds of years, dominating the markets and building my hoard, content with my life. I was alone, and I was fine. Until I saw him . Brilliant, beautiful, shifting into his dragon form for the first time, he was everything I never wanted and everything I couldn’t walk away from. I didn’t need a mate. I had one anyway. I was a bomb, and I was about to go off... moreI needed to claim him like I needed to breathe. - Nicholin - I never wanted a mate. I’d been alone for hundreds of years, dominating the markets and building my hoard, content with my life. I was alone, and I was fine. Until I saw him . Brilliant, beautiful, shifting into his dragon form for the first time, he was everything I never wanted and everything I couldn’t walk away from. I didn’t need a mate. I had one anyway. I was a bomb, and I was about to go off. - Alex - Fire. I wasn’t human. I couldn’t be, not with the way flames filled my dreams and burned through my veins. I’d had an affinity for fire all my life, but this was different. I was hot, burning alive. The pressure built and built until suddenly I was changing into something different. My skin split to reveal scales; my hands changed to claws; wings burst from my back and I opened my eyes as a dragon… To see him , and to hunger . This 53,000-word novel contains adult language and scorching sexual situations, male pregnancy, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed HEA. The books in the Fated Embers series can be read in any order, though small details may make more sense when read sequentially. less