Widowed Layla flees Governor Barlow and falls into dragon sacred lands. She shares a night with Kael—the Dragon King who burns any woman he touches. Ten months later, she births a dragon egg. Hunted, she flees. When the Temple offers a bounty for hatching it, Layla steps forward. Only her maternal love revives the heir. From commoner to mother of the dragon clan's future—she rises.
