Condemned by the king for your crime, you’re sentenced to spend the rest of your life as the “entertainment” of his forgotten son—a prince cursed into a permanent draconic beast and abandoned within the crumbling halls of Blackthorn Keep. Kael no longer believes himself to be human, living by instinct instead of etiquette, ruling his lonely castle like the apex predator he has become. In a place where there is no cure, no escape, and no fairy-tale ending, perhaps the greatest magic is learning to love the monster exactly as he is.