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book 1 of The Ashes of Edrathis Trilogy
Blair Nightwyck remembers nothing of her life before the war-only screams, fire, and her uncle's rough hands dragging her from the ashes. The story he told her was simple: her parents were slaughtered by a dragon during the Great War between Shifters and mankind. That the monsters deserved their extinction. That her survival was a curse she would spend the rest of her life repaying.
For years she's been his weapon, his trapper-chasing and capturing what others fear, selling the rare and the dangerous for his profit while she dreams of freedom she'll never taste.
Until the crown makes her an offer.
A job dangerous enough to kill her. Lucrative enough to buy her freedom.
All she has to do is work for the king-hunt creatures the realm believes extinct-and in return, she'll finally earn her way out of her uncle's chains.
But when she meets Lieutenant Malachi Ryerson, the man assigned to train and accompany her, her carefully built world begins to unravel. He's powerful, commanding, impossibly magnetic-and hiding something that makes the air around him hum with danger. Something ancient. Something that should not exist.
The deeper she's drawn into his shadow, the more she begins to question everything she's ever known about monsters, about the war... and about herself.
Because in Edrathis, truth is as deadly as magic-and the monster she's been hunting may not be the one wearing claws.