The Dragon Who Burned Her Crown: a Gothic Romantasy of Nameless Heir

The dragon arrived before Oriana's coronation crown touched her hair, breathed white fire across her name, and left an empire staring at a princess it could no longer recognize.Oriana Solenne was raised to inherit every system the freed dragons have torn apart. She planned to take the throne and reform the Auric Dominion from within.Avarik knows the crown will never belong to her.It will consume her.The elder Dragon of Names has spent three centuries imprisoned beneath the Crown Citadel, forced to authenticate the bloodlines that keep the empire in power. When he discovers Emperor Garran intends to overwrite Oriana's identity and wear it as his own, Avarik burns her name from the imperial registry.He saves her life and destroys the only life she has ever known.Her friends remember her face. The law remembers nothing. Doors reject her, soldiers cannot accept her commands, and every privilege she once mistook for duty disappears. Her father declares the nameless woman a dragon-made impostor.Oriana distrusts the dragon who erased her identity without permission. Avarik distrusts the heir who still believes inherited power can be redeemed. Yet as they cross a capital determined to deny her existence, anger becomes respect, and respect becomes a love no crown can command.Then the empire begins stripping entire districts of their names.With the final Hoard in enemy hands, five dragons and five women must unite against a coronation ritual capable of making Garran's rule permanent. To stop him, Oriana must decide who she is without a throne, while Avarik must learn that freeing someone is not the same as choosing for them.An empire built on stolen identities is about to fall.But first, Oriana must burn the crown she was born to wear.The Dragon Who Burned Her Crown is the emotionally powerful finale of Dragons of the Shattered Hoard. It delivers a complete, high-tension, closed-door romance and the final resolution of the five-book rebellion. The series is best read in order.