The Dragon Knew

Sorren Voss finally has the life she fought for.She can fly with Vessa, the centuries-old Titan dragon who chose her. And she has Kael-the man who once failed to realize she was flirting with him and now knows exactly how to make her blush.For the first time, Sorren has more than a dream.She has something to lose.Her bond with Vessa is deepening, but power does not arrive already mastered. A heavy bow has to be rebuilt. Vessa's strength has to be borrowed without losing control. Distance, wind, timing, and flight turn the smallest mistake into something that matters.Sorren is getting better.More importantly, she is beginning to see more-how terrain changes a battle, how one good decision can become disastrous beside another, and how a rider can matter for more than what she can do from a saddle.She will need every bit of it, because the war is no longer far away.The front is moving closer. Dragons command the sky. Giant apes bring immense power to the ground. But strange black iron can strip a dragon of its strength, and the enemy is learning how to force the kingdom's strongest weapons apart.And beneath the war lies something older.A mage more than eight hundred years old remembers a war fought four centuries ago-and he knows Vessa. Black iron grows where metal should not grow. Vessa recognizes dangers no one else alive seems to understand.Whatever happened before, it was never as finished as the world believed.Kael is no longer a possibility. He is part of Sorren's life.There are shared meals now. Family. Desire. Sex. The comfort of reaching for him without wondering whether he will reach back.But the stronger Sorren becomes, the more dangerous the choices in front of her become too. And Kael's instinct to protect the people he loves has always been one of the things Sorren trusts most about him.Until protecting her begins to look too much like deciding for her.Love is no longer the question.Whether they can love each other without choosing each other's risks might be.The war is getting closer. The past is coming with it. And whatever Vessa has known for centuries, Sorren is running out of time to understand.