Aerion Targaryen was never meant to choose. His marriage to the Princess of Volantis, Caelyra, was already decided - an alliance of blood and power. But Aerion never wanted her. He saw something else. Silent, invisible, Caelyra's slave was never meant to catch his attention - let alone become his choice. On the eve of a wedding meant to unite kingdoms, Aerion changes the fate of three lives. In secret, before a septon and with Daeron as witness, he marries the one who was never meant to be chosen. And in a world where dragons take what they want... No one walks away unscathed.

Everyone thought all hope was lost for the young exiled prince, vain, cruel and arrogant. All until he meets a certain young muse, named Haelea, in the free city named Lys. Her eyes outstandingly purple, her hair as pale as his, her voice like a melody when she spoke, when she sang, and her as a whole- unmatched, unique from any other. But he was self-absorbed- and she was everything that he was not. How could a girl, so outstanding, fall for such a fierce dragon-like man like him? Will she change him, and his mischievous self- or will it all be the start of a restless fire. A fire causing only the deepest of tragedy. A fire never going to end.