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Nandi_taylor
Complete, First published Jul 15, 2017
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Island princess Yenni is searching for a way to save her father's life, but a handsome yet infuriating shapeshifting dragon becomes an unexpected distraction.

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As a princess of the Moonrise Isles, Yenni is all-but-engaged to the prince of a neighbouring tribe. She knows it's her duty to ensure peace for her people, but as her father's illness steadily worsens, she sets out on a sacred journey to the empire of Cresh, determined to find a way to save him at any cost, even though failure could mean the wrath of her gods and ruin for her people. One further complication? On the day she arrives at the Prevan Academy for Battle and Magical Arts, she meets an arrogant dragon shifter who claims she's his "Given", or destined mate. Muscular, beautiful (and completely infuriating), he's exactly the kind of distraction Yenni can't afford while her father's life hangs in the balance. But by rejecting him, is she fighting her feelings -- or her fate?
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Crowned In Ashes

24 parts Complete

Raised to wield the blade against him. Crowned to stand beside him. A forced marriage. A shattered kingdom. A love written in blood. Princess Celeste was raised to kill Crown Prince Cassian-the enemy heir who razed her homeland and signed her fate in fire. To preserve the fragile peace between their war-torn nations, she's forced to marry the very boy she was trained to destroy. But Cassian isn't the cold monster she imagined. And Celeste... she isn't just a pawn in their game of thrones. Beneath her poised silence lies a deadly secret: ancient, forbidden magic that could tip the scales of power-or burn everything to ash. As old wounds resurface and buried truths begin to rise, the thin line between duty and desire begins to blur. Cassian and Celeste must navigate palace intrigue, political betrayal, and their own dangerous attraction, all while enemies gather in the shadows-and war threatens to return. He was her enemy. She was his downfall. Together, they might be the end-or the beginning-of everything.

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