She was who I needed. Even if I didn't know it.

As heir to one of the powerful dragon houses, my father expects my mate to be a proper ‘match' for my position. He's spent years parading those he approves past me.

I hated them all. No woman was right for me. Until our ruler tricked me into taking a human for a mate.

My dragon has never been so alive. So obsessed. From the moment I laid my eyes on Chloe, I knew that I had to have her. To make her mine.

Unfortunately, the most recent of my rejected ‘proper' mates is also the youngest daughter of a rival house. Taking a human mate so soon after turning her down in public has them up in arms over the perceived insult. They demand I give up the one thing I won't compromise on:

Chloe.

But all this might not matter, because she hasn't told me everything. And her true reason for coming to the Dragon Isles could threaten all dragonkind…