Dragon Mistress

They're the last five dragons in existence. To survive, they must form soul-bonds with five noble humans. Too bad they're stuck with us instead. The angry drunk. The shameless womanizer. The coward who ran away and got his comrades killed. The ice-cold assassin for hire. And me, the foreign girl with abandonment issues as deep and wide as the Southern Sea. My four knights in tarnished armor are all that stand between the dragons and a corrupt ruler intent on hunting them to extinction. A ruler, I might add, whom I managed to personally offend by escaping his harem of unwilling concubines. So... yeah. Let's just say that so far, this experience hasn't lived up to my childhood dreams of travel to exotic faraway lands. I left home in search of adventure. Instead, I stumbled into the middle of a desperate struggle for survival. Five people. Five mythical beasts. If we manage to get through this mess, it's going to be a miracle.

The survival of the last living dragons rests with me and my misfit friends. So… yeah. No pressure. Mind you, this whole thing would be easier if two of our number weren't hell-bent on killing each other. Rayth and Nyx have both been hiding secrets for a very long time, but now they face a choice. Let go of their ugly pasts, or watch the future burn to the ground. We won't be able to hide five hungry, growing dragons in the mountains forever. As soon as someone catches sight of them, every soldier in Utrea will be after us. And there's no way we can fight for our dragons' survival when we're this busy fighting amongst ourselves. I've always been the queen of questionable life choices, but falling for four proud, stubborn, damaged men at the same time is a new benchmark even for me. What we're building with the dragons-and each other-could be amazing beyond belief. It could also end in tragedy beyond measure. If I want it to be the former, it looks like I need to start banging some heads together. Otherwise, our hopes and dreams could well go down in flames. -o-o-o- The Dragon Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a medium-burn fantasy romance series with dragonriders, where the heroine doesn't have to pick one person at the end. This series is part of the Eburosi Chronicles: The Horse Mistress (4 books, complete) The Lion Mistress (3 books, complete) The Dragon Mistress (4 books, complete) Master of Hounds (3 books, complete) The War Mistress (4 books, coming soon) While loosely linked, each series may be read on its own.

Our secret is out, and now we’re marked for death. A lone survivor escaped the mountain battle, carrying news of our dragons’ existence to the court of Prince Oblisii. Utrea’s dragons were supposed to have been wiped out long ago. Only these five remain—a male and four females. They’re all that’s left to carry on the species, but first we have to keep them alive. The prince will come soon with his army, and I’m stuck on a mountaintop with my four knights in tarnished armor. Sometimes, I think these men will be the death of me long before the royal soldiers arrive. Other times, I think they may be my only salvation. Before the five of us can flee Utrea for safer shores, I’ll have to form a soul-bond with the male dragon. Until then, he’s little more than a wild animal, dangerous and unpredictable. And without the male, we’re lost, since the future of dragonkind rests on his shimmering white wings. Yet the idea of the soul-bond fills me with terror. If I bind myself to him, his death would mean my death, just as my death would mean his. Already, the men I love are binding the female dragons one by one, tying their souls irrevocably together. With the others already bound, everything depends on me. But danger lurks whether I accept that dragon-bond or not. I was already a wanted woman, after I spurned Prince Oblisii and escaped from his harem of concubines. Not only that, but I also fled straight into the arms of a group led by Oblisii’s disgraced older brother—Rathanii, the man who should have been Utrea’s king. If Prince Oblisii gets hold of me again, death will be the least of my worries. And the gods only know what the others might do to try and get me back.

We ran away, but it didn't solve our problems. Now, we're going back to fight for Aristede. And oh, yeah-there's also the small matter of toppling Rayth's corrupt younger brother from the Utrean throne, so we can remove the bounty on our dragons' heads. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? As the king's eldest son, Rayth grew up expecting to rule. Instead, he ended up disgraced and exiled. When he unknowingly stumbled upon the last five dragon eggs in existence, using the creatures to take back his crown was the last thing on his mind. All that changed after Rayth's brother Oblisii murdered their father and stole the kingship. With that fateful blow, what started out as a simple rescue mission to find our lost comrade has become something much more. We won't be safe until Oblisii is dead, and dragons are once more protected in the land of Utrea. To make that happen, we'll have to risk everything in a desperate gamble to control the throne. In the end, I just want my family back. I'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. -o-o-o- The Dragon Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a medium-burn fantasy romance series with dragonriders, where the heroine doesn't have to pick one person at the end. It contains adult scenes. This series is part of the Eburosi Chronicles: The Horse Mistress (4 books, complete) The Lion Mistress (3 books, complete) The Dragon Mistress (4 books, complete) Master of Hounds (3 books, complete) Mistress of War (4 books, coming soon)