The Dragon’s Chosen: a Dark Dragon Romantasy of Forbidden Bonds, Black Flame Magic, Academy Trials, Wounded Dragons, Slow Burn Romance and Fallen King: 1

A healer was never meant to wake the black wing pact.Cindria Skyrend knows how to survive inside Cindervale's healing halls: keep her magic quiet, ask no dangerous questions, and never stare too long at the chains around a wounded dragon's throat.Then an unrecorded war dragon is dragged in before dawn, burned from the inside by black flame.When Cindria touches the wound, the fire answers her.The mark it leaves behind should be impossible. The voice in her mind should not exist. And the name whispered through the dragon's pain belongs to the most dangerous man in the realm: Falkor Scaleborn, the disgraced dragon king Cindervale calls traitor.Falkor was buried in chains for refusing the Rider-Council's darkest command. His dragon was declared dead. His crown was stripped. His name became a warning.But Cindria's mark proves the council has been lying.Beneath Skyhold, hidden dragons suffer in forbidden chambers. Lost riders are erased from records. The black wing pact is waking again, and Cindria may be the only healer alive who can touch its power without being destroyed by it.The council wants to use her.Falkor wants to keep her alive.The dragons want the truth.And the deeper Cindria goes beneath the mountain, the clearer the cost becomes: every act of mercy feeds the pact, every bond demands a price, and every forbidden touch between her and Falkor threatens to become the one weakness their enemies can use against them both.The Dragon's Chosen is Book 1 in The Rider of Black Flame, a dark adult dragon romantasy series with forbidden magic, a healer heroine, a fallen dragon king, wounded dragons, political betrayal, slow burn heat and a dangerous bond that could save the realm or break it open.