In a world where dragon shifters known as Drakens hide among humans. Submissive are rare powerful and hunted. their scales infused with the magic of near immortality are worth millions on the black market. to poachers they're not people. they're resources to be harvested. And orphaned Kaelin Ward just became one. on her sixteenth birthday fire bloomed under her skin her eyes turned molten and her pain filled screams shattered glass she doesn't know what's happening only that she's becoming something else something dangerous something hunted she's a submissive Draken one of the most converted beings in existence Kaelin doesn't fully understand what she is but she knows one thing NO ONE CAN KNOW hiding among humans she keeps her head down and survived in silence for two years until everything falls apart an unexpected attack forces her to send a desperate distress call that the dragon Council can not ignore now exposed and dragged into a world she barely understands Kaelin is faced with impossible demands she must quickly learn what it means to be a submissive draken and prepare for what comes next the mate trials to survive Kaelin must choose dominant mates to ground her raging dragon and protect her from the predators lurking in the shadows if she doesn't her own power will burn her from the inside out she's not a prize she's not commodity she's a dragon and she's done running