Ashes of the Celestial Bond

In a kingdom where every soul is born tethered to a celestial beast, she came into the world unclaimed. Unwanted. Unworthy.

Saphira Elion was supposed to die at birth - her heart silent, her bond absent.
But when a dying dragon chooses her as its final host, she is resurrected... with fire in her lungs and vengeance in her blood.

Thrust into the Aetherion Citadel, a sky-bound war academy built on ancient bones and older lies, she becomes the anomaly everyone wants erased - hunted by heirs, feared by beasts, and bound to a creature that should no longer exist.

And then there's Commander Rhaziel Voren - the Citadel's dark heir, forged in loyalty and rage. His beast tried to kill her. His gaze tries harder.

But something is breaking inside the Citadel.
The celestial bonds are unraveling.
The beasts are whispering.
And deep beneath the academy, a buried god is stirring.

She was never soulless.
She is the lock to a door that should never be opened.

And now the flames she carries will either burn the world clean -
or reduce it to ash.