Wings of the Last Rider

She spent eleven years fighting other people's wars. Now she has to save the one kingdom that never wanted her.Maeve Corran doesn't believe in destiny. She believes in counting the enemy before they count you, in getting paid, and in walking away from every fight breathing. Then a mercenary contract leads her into a collapsed vault where something ancient and impossible has been waiting two hundred years - for her.The dragon is real. The bond is real. And the bloodline she never knew she carried marks her as the last of the Emberborn Riders, an order the crown itself burned to ash two centuries ago out of fear of exactly this kind of power.Dragged to the capital as equal parts weapon and suspect, Maeve has weeks to master a bond no living teacher fully understands, under the cold, watchful eye of Lord Commander Garen Thorne - a man built entirely out of duty, who trusts nothing he can't verify, and who is rapidly running out of reasons not to trust her.Because something worse than politics is coming. A warlord beyond the Veil Sea has found a way to corrupt dragons of his own, twisting them into wyrms bound by blood and cruelty, and he is marching an army toward a kingdom that spent two hundred years making sure it would never be ready to fight back.Between sabotage in the halls of power, a slow-burning trust she never meant to feel for the one man sworn to contain her, and a sky about to fill with fire, Maeve will have to become everything the old order was destroyed for fearing - before there's no kingdom left to save.What's inside:¿ A fast-moving epic fantasy built around real aerial battles, not just court intrigue¿ A slow-burn romance between a guarded commander and a woman who refuses to be caged¿ An original dragon-bond mythology with a bloodline, a betrayal, and a war worth flying into¿ A standalone adventure with a complete beginning, middle, and end - no cliffhangerPerfect for readers of epic dragon fantasy and action-driven adventure who want soaring stakes, a found family worth fighting for, and a romance that earns every quiet moment it's given. Readers who finish this book will also want to check the author's page for more adventures set in kingdoms worth defending.