Many centuries ago, people faced extinction. Insatiable dragon barbarians attacked human settlements, burning them to the ground and devouring everything alive. Having lost hope, people turned to dragons of law—reasonable beings—for protection. They agreed to defend people from their own kind, but demanded payment in return. When the time came, people gave the dragons their daughters who had come of age but had not yet crossed the twenty-year mark. More daughters were never returned to the parental home—never!
Aira was not supposed to be the one sacrificed. But fate, in cahoots with human treachery, decided otherwise…