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Nineteen-year-old Princess Luz De Lune leaves home expecting to complete an ancient rite and return changed.
She does.
Just not in the way she imagined.
Her bond with Pazelithra, a young dragon with a sharp tongue and a will entirely her own, should mark the beginning of Luz's future. Instead, when they return to Lyona, they find a kingdom that no longer feels like the one Luz left behind.
Something has happened in her absence.
The castle has fallen silent. Familiar faces are gone. Rumors spread faster than truth, and the people Luz once believed she understood are suddenly difficult to read. With danger closing around her, Luz is forced into hiding while she tries to make sense of a kingdom that seems to be keeping secrets from her.
But Lyona's secrets may reach further back than the events that shattered her home.
Old records have disappeared. Forgotten passages run beneath the city. The bond between Luz and Paz is beginning to reveal abilities neither of them fully understands, and the more Luz searches for answers, the less certain she becomes that anything is as simple as it first appeared.
Luz has spent her life being prepared to rule.
No one prepared her for this.
To survive, she will have to learn when to fight, when to run, who to trust-and whether the truth she is searching for is something she actually wants to find.
**Scorched** is a character-driven fantasy of dragons, magic, political intrigue, grief, hidden histories, dangerous loyalties, and the uneasy bond between a princess trying to understand what happened to her world and a dragon who may be carrying secrets of her own.