The Chainbound Heir

The Eclipse Chronicles Book 1

Kage has spent her life as a secret the Sun Dragon Kingdom would rather forget. Branded a monster, she is bound in iron, her lethal, unnatural tail restrained by a device meant to keep her from turning on those around her. Raised not as a daughter, but as a weapon, she endures isolation and cruelty, never told why she was made this way-only that she should be feared.

When her father is murdered in a calculated betrayal, Kage becomes the kingdom's next target. Forced to flee, she escapes beyond the safety of Solaryn's gilded walls into a world far more dangerous than she was ever prepared for. But something is different now.

As she runs, fragments of a hidden truth begin to surface-whispers of a forbidden moon dragon lineage, glimpses of a power that does not belong to any single kingdom. Strange encounters and lingering shadows suggest that Kage is not just being hunted... she is being watched.

With only her two companions, one of whom is an unwilling participant, she must learn to survive in lands where alliances are fragile and enemies wear many faces. And protect those with her at any cost even if one may be ungrateful. Yet the greatest danger may not be the forces pursuing her, but the power awakening within her-something ancient, unstable, and never meant to exist.

As the truth of her origins begins to unravel, Kage is faced with a terrifying possibility: she is not simply a weapon forged by her kingdom... but something far greater. And whatever is hunting her... knows exactly what she will become.