THE DRAGON KING'S FORBIDDEN BRIDE A Fantasy Romance of Hidden Powers, Royal Betrayal, Forbidden Love, and a Destiny Written in Fire Mara Vale has spent her whole life as nothing more than a village healer, until the night a dragon burns her home to ash and a masked stranger pulls her from the flames, leaving behind only a warning and a black dragon scale that will not stop growing warm in her hand. She survives. She should not have. The fire that destroyed everything she loved would not touch her, and the mark on her wrist, one she never thought twice about, is about to unravel everything she believed about who she is. Kael Draven is the Dragon King of Drakoria, feared across the seven realms as a ruler who forgives nothing and forgets no betrayal. For eleven years he has searched in secret for a woman named in a prophecy eleven centuries old, one who could either heal the ancient curse sealed beneath Mount Veyr, or shatter it, and every kingdom with it. When he finds her among a crowd of frightened refugees, one look at the mark on her wrist tells him the wait is finally over. What neither of them expects is to fall in love with the very danger they were warned about. As the ancient flame itself names Mara the King's Chosen Bride, she is drawn into a court built on secrets: a jealous Dowager Queen who wants her dead, a stolen bloodline that could rewrite the kingdom's oldest law, and a power waking inside her that not even the King fully understands. When betrayal cracks the throne itself and war spreads across the seven realms, Mara and Kael will have to decide whether the fire that first drew them together is meant to destroy Drakoria, or finally set it free. A forbidden bride. A ruthless king. A prophecy eleven hundred years in the making. The fire has already chosen. Now it's time to find out what it costs to keep her.