A bride chosen by moonfire. A Dragon King cursed to become a monster. A love that must be freely given-or it will destroy them both.
Liora Vale has spent her life surviving in the poor village of Briar Hollow, healing the sick, hiding the strange silver mark beneath her skin, and protecting her fragile younger sister, Mina, from hunger, debt, and the cruelty of frightened men. All she wants is a quiet escape: medicine for Mina, a road out of the village, and a future no one can take from them.
But when the ancient ash-stone wakes and burns Liora's name in moonfire, the people she once saved hand her over as bride tribute to the cursed Dragon King of Ashenvale.
King Dorian Veyr is feared across the realm-powerful, beautiful, dangerous, and bound to a curse that burns through his blood every full moon. The court believes a moon-born bride can save him. The truth is far darker: if Dorian claims Liora by force, she may die in his arms. If he refuses the bond, the curse may consume him completely and unleash the dragon madness his enemies are waiting for.
Taken to Stormspire, Liora enters a palace of poisoned cups, hidden bride laws, jealous nobles, mirror magic, and old secrets buried beneath polished stone. To the court, she is not a woman. She is a cure, a weapon, a sacrifice. Yet the Dragon King she expects to fear is the only man who refuses to take what she has not freely given.
Dorian is not the monster Briar Hollow promised her. He is a king at war with his own body, a man chained by restraint, haunted by the women his court has erased, and terrified that wanting Liora will become another kind of danger. And as Liora sees the lonely man beneath the crown, hatred becomes trust, trust becomes longing, and every almost-touch burns hotter than dragonfire.
But Ashenvale is full of enemies.
An exiled dragon prince rises from the Iron Teeth with iron-branded soldiers, mirror witchcraft, and a plan to use Mina as the knife against Liora's heart. A sorceress twists mercy into weakness. The court hides the truth about the curse. And the secret in Liora's blood may be the key to breaking the ancient spell-or the reason the kingdom falls.
To save her sister, free the Dragon King, and expose the lie that turned brides into sacrifices, Liora must choose whether love is worth walking into moonfire.
And Dorian must decide whether he is strong enough to be saved without taking, loved without owning, and chosen without chains.
Dramatic, romantic, and fantasy-rich, The Moonfire Dragon's Bride is a cursed Dragon King romance filled with forced-bride danger, palace betrayal, slow-burn longing, fierce sister love, dragon magic, emotional sacrifice, and a powerful happy ending. For readers who love wounded kings, brave heroines, dangerous courts, and romance that burns brightest when it is freely chosen.