Emberbound, Book 5
PRIME
He was claimed four times. This time, he does the claiming.
Nash Cole opens his door to a raven, a feather, and a scrap of paper in his dead mother's handwriting: "Find her. Forgive her." Twenty-one years after the fire that killed her, the last fragment of the Ashen Seal cracks off his chest, and he remembers all at once that the fire was his. The "her" is Nyx, a feral two hundred years old, his mother's best friend, and the dragon who sealed him when he was eight. She tells him the truth the Concord buried: the Emberheart rite demands the Prime's fire as fuel, and every Prime before him died on its altar. Everything that ever "protected" him was keeping the future fuel alive. Nash has stopped running and started choosing. Under the old feral rite, the claimer bares the throat. So he kneels in the dirt, puts his life in her teeth, speaks the words she taught him, and takes Nyx as his fifth mate on his terms: Sera, Juno, Ivy, Selene, Nyx. One man. Five women. One constellation of marks on his chest. Now three armies are marching on the Cinder Caldera, and all three want the same thing: his fire. He walks into all three traps at dawn and refuses every version of the sacrifice, shattering the Emberheart and giving his fire freely through his five bonds. The channel takes its price: his wings. He knew. He paid with his eyes open. PRIME is the fifth and final book in the Emberbound saga, a dark fantasy romance of dragons, claimed mates, and explicit adult consensual heat. The fire proposes. She disposes.