The End of a Dream The Reckoning book 4 (dracoxoc)

The End of a Dream

She won't pick a side. She'll pick who lives.

Ashling Blackwater has a badge no one wanted and a voice that can crack the hush of war. Half-merrow, wholly relentless, she runs the fault lines-dragging people out of burning skies, prying open locked ministries, threading rescue routes through a castle that remembers how to bleed. She doesn't wear colors. She keeps promises.

Across the distance, a silver vow hums: a bond sworn under moonlit rain at Galway Bay. Draco Malfoy is caged in a house that kneels to darkness; Ash sings through the scale on his wrist, and he answers with a heartbeat in the fox against her throat. They can't stand together-so they learn to fight apart.

Ash isn't afraid of her voice anymore. She will spend it like blood, turn battles with a breath, and choose-again and again-who makes it home. War will take its tithe; grief will call her by name. But love isn't her weakness.

It's her strategy.

Expect: bonded lovers separated by war • lethal siren song & salt-magic • heists, safe-house maps, and mirror-spies • canon-tight DH timeline from extraction to siege • a storm-lit reunion that refuses to break.