After being sold off to pay off her mother's gambling debts as a young teenager, Alira "Lucky" Stone spent many years stuck as property to one of the top players in Penacony. Now at the age of twenty-two years old, Lucky has only ever been allowed to see the world outside her caged "home" whenever her owner needed "good luck" in a game. As much as she hated it, Lucky was forced to abide. Keeping her mouth shut and following orders. However, during the time her owner called her to come by during a heated game, she met the eyes of a cool, confident man. The one her owner was sweating bullets against. With a the most sly grin ever known to mankind on his face, the blond pointed to her with words that made her feel something real for the first time in years, "how about you add her to the pool?" Lucky, originally known as Alira, was about to gain the first, yet biggest gamble she's ever played.

For two years, Ember has spent time living on the Xianzhou Luofu. Before that? She was a normal college student living in Los Angeles. When fate had brought her death day early, it seemed to have given Ember a second chance in a world she never knew existed. Fairly quickly, she adapted. Living a life that wasn't hers to begin with but making the most of what she was dealt. It was better than being dead, right? Ember has kept her old life a secret, but when the Express crew decide to visit for this years Wardance ceremony and end up catching the eye of a very intelligent and perceptive dragon, she's finding it harder and harder to keep her lies afloat and story straight.