Ashborne: Defiance

Ashborne is a standalone, slow-burn, mythical creatures romantic fantasy set in the Emberquell world of the Flameborne and Shadowborne duets. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, and Sarah J. Maass's ACOTAR series, Ashborne is an enemies to lovers fantasy in which a noblewoman is bonded by a dragon, but must fight to keep her place—and her heart—against the man who swore he'd never trust a woman again.

His greatest battle isn't war... it's wanting her.

Just weeks from an arranged marriage to a man old enough to be her father, Lady Grace Barnslow encounters Voski, a dark, enigmatic dragon rider from a neighboring kingdom… who despises her on sight.

While Grace was born to a world of silk and silver, every privileged choice determined before her birth, Voski is everything the realm admires in a An accomplished man of few words, with intellect and wiles as sharp as his blade. Though he is cold to the point of cruelty, Grace is unable to resist his savage allure.

When Voski discovers Grace's unsettling stealth, he intends to return home, leaving her in the velvet cage of the enemy's castle. But his plan is waylaid when a wild dragon Chooses her—and bonds his dragon.

Sucked into the bonfire of a she-dragon’s heat, Voski goes to war with himself, and the draw of a dragon bond. Yet, in the wake of his triumph at resisting both, he finds himself standing not on the bloodied field of victory, but in the ashy remains of what might have been.

As Grace proves her courage and compassion, time and again, yearning for his approval, Voski comes face to face with the festering wounds of his past. If he cannot overcome them, Grace will be lost forever. Not only to a rejected bond, but to the very man Voski A noble of power, who seeks little but a womb, and the prestige her blood grants him.

Fly into a brand new, enemies-to-lovers romance, set in the mythical landscape of author Aimee Lynn's Chosen, in which the chains of duty, placed on a high-born woman with a heart for adventure, threaten to break the man whose scars run deeper than desire... Even for his soulmate.

Tropes and content Romantasy with spice, dragons and dragon rider romance, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, fated mates, rejected bond, touch her and die, found family, strong female lead, slow burn to high spice, fantasy academy romance, and much, much more!

*****

Genre and Series This Emberquell Academy duet is a romantasy book for adults / romantasy with spice (though the first volume is slow burn.) These romantic dragon books are brimming with forbidden love storylines, "Who did this to you?" and a female lead who grows from weak to strong.