The Crimson Scale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186812524)

She was born to ride dragons. She was never meant to uncover the rot beneath a kingdom.

At the cliff fortress of Emberfall, Riona is the finest rider the Order of the Crimson Scale has seen in a generation, bonded heart and soul to Vaelroth, a dragon whose fire beats in time with her own. High above the alabaster towers of Auremond, the realm calls itself a place of harmony. Riona has flown through enough storms to know better.

When a smuggled scrap of parchment draws her into the ruins beneath the capital, she stumbles onto a truth the crown has buried: a rebellion called the Verdant Talon is spreading through the poor and the forgotten, an ancient prophecy is waking from three hundred years of silence, and someone inside her own Order is quietly feeding names to the enemy.

Caught between a crown that has failed its people and a rebellion willing to burn everything to be heard, Riona is drawn to the one man she cannot afford to trust: Commander Valerius Corran, whose loyalties shift like smoke and whose secrets could save the realm or shatter it. As dragonfire falls on the white towers and the coil of prophecy tightens around her, Riona must decide what she is willing to sacrifice, and whether a kingdom rotten at the root can ever be made whole again.

Lush, immersive, and impossible to put down, The Crimson Scale is an epic fantasy of dragons and betrayal, forbidden love and hard-won hope. Perfect for readers who love dragon-bonded heroines, court intrigue, slow-burn romance, and a story where mercy is its own kind of fire.