Where the Wild Wood Burns

In a world locked in winter's icy grip, a single spark is about to ignite an ancient fire. Amber is a survivor. Fragile but fierce, she braves the lethal, frozen depths of the Ironwood Forest day after day to keep her ailing father alive. But the winter is cruel, the traps are empty, and starvation is closing in. Driven by pure desperation, Amber makes a choice that changes her fate forever: she sacrifices her own desperately needed meal to save a mother deer and her fawn from a hunter's trap, entering the deadly night with nothing but an empty stomach and an unyielding vow. She has no idea that someone-something-is watching her from the shadows. Estreil is the last of his kind. A legendary dragon shifter with power over fire, he bears the crushing, centuries-old weight of his dying bloodline. For a hundred years, his solitude has been an iron cage-until he sees a slip of a human girl with hair like fire and sky-blue eyes, defying the wilderness to save another creature. In that single, visceral moment, the dragon within him recognizes its catalyst.