Dragons do not bow to anyone. Until one lowers his head to a servant girl. When the ancient black dragon crosses the throne room and ignores the crowned princess, he stops in front of nameless Elara — and in a heartbeat she turns from invisible maid into the most dangerous mistake the crown has ever made. Branded a witch, hunted by the royal family, and tied to the kingdom’s deadliest general who watched her mother burn, Elara is dragged into a war of stolen names and swapped heirs that was written over her life before she was born. The dragon should not remember her. Yet every time his shadow falls over her, he looks at her like he has spent twenty years searching the sky for one girl — and has finally found the one they tried to erase.