the Dragon in Line: 1

What does it profit a Prince to command the Void, if the price of its protection is the Light of the world?Prince Darius, Blood-Heir to the Dragon Throne, has spent his life mastering one command above all others: feel nothing.Bound by the rigid laws of the Dragon Line and the paranoia of his father, Darius knows the dark Void within him is a devastating weapon-but wielding it demands that he keep his soul frozen.Then he meets Mia Twilight.A fierce survivor of the Red Dunes, Mia fights with raw instinct, a dagger, and a stubborn refusal to bend before royalty. She is everything Darius has been taught to distrust: warmth, rebellion, and a fire he cannot extinguish.Their first encounter ends in blood.Their second may cost him his soul.When Darius, torn by indecision, defies his father, he places Mia and himself directly in the sights of the crown. To King Va'lerius, Mia is not a woman to be loved-she is a threat to the empire.Determined to purge her influence, the king invokes the Kal-kal'nor: a brutal royal gauntlet where ten lethal warrior women enter the arena, and only one walks out alive to claim the Prince's hand.Now Darius and Mia are trapped in the king's deadly game, where every woman in the arena is a potential enemy-and the crown has made Mia its ultimate target.Will Darius defy the duty that has ruled his life-or sacrifice the woman who has given him a reason to break it?