“Cheated for the Dragons’ General” is a novel by Yuliya Zimina, part of the cycle “Catching a Dragon by the Tail.” Genre: detective fantasy, romantic fantasy, adventure fantasy.
By the will of my family, I married a man who saw only a pitiful nothing in me. He avoided intimacy with me, yet I’m supposed to give birth to his child. Under the laws of our world, if a young wife does not conceive within the first year of marriage, an indelible stain of disgrace will fall on her entire family. To avoid this, my mother-in-law, out of the kindness of her heart, offers me a deal—she will turn a blind eye to my “defect” if I give her beloved son all of my magical energy, without which my dragoness will fall asleep forever…