Strombound: The Dragonsworn Chronicles

Three years of war have taught Wren Calder how to fight. They have not taught her how to stop.Vashtar Corim believes the Order's shortage of bonded riders can only be solved one way - not through choice, but through control. His Chainbound rite has turned the horror of coercion into a weapon, and with the mass-binding at the Cinder Throne nearing completion, he intends to finish what three generations of his family began: an army of dragons that never once said yes.Wren has one answer to give him - the same one she's spent this entire war proving, one frightened creature at a time. That consent, freely offered, is stronger than anything taken by force. But proving it to a single yearling in a quiet clearing is nothing like proving it inside a caldera full of chained dragons, an army bent on finishing what it started, and a working that has never once been built to survive being refused.With Threnody's storm-charge running dangerously thin, a reformed enemy at her side who was never given a choice of his own, and everyone she loves holding the line just long enough to buy her one more chance to reach, Wren has to walk into the heart of Corim's rite and offer it the one thing it was never designed to receive.Some wars end with a blade. This one ends with a choice.STORMBOUND is the fourth book in the Dragonsworn Chronicles.