Rejected by every dragon at Blackglass, Aria North is chosen by a broken night-dragon—and forced to share its memory bond with Cassian Veyr.

Detroit EMT Eli Mercer witnesses racing queen Reina Knox commit a crime, becoming the protected captive she cannot release and the one man she cannot silence.

Crisis negotiator Mara Voss survives an assassination attempt only to wake inside Roman Bell’s camera-filled Las Vegas penthouse—and learn he has watched her for months.

Scholarship editor Imani Cross recuts nepo director Jude Mercer’s thesis, only to become the target of a deepfake controlled by their film-school secret society.

Sports-data prodigy Paloma Reyes becomes the target of football captain Knox Whitaker’s campus bet, then uncovers boosters wagering on injured players’ survival.

Scholarship journalist Rowan Price exposes Bellwether’s final club, only for billionaire legacy president Sebastian Vale to erase her credibility—and offer the key to its machine.

Security CEO Sloane Mercer auctions her own staged kidnapping, only to be won by Cassian Vale—the secret lover tied to her biometric conspiracy.

Royal ritual director Han Seo-yeon loses her name to Dokkaebi King Mu-jin, whose body becomes the monster every rumor claims he is.

Memory smuggler Sable steals the last summer from a sentient glacier and awakens every war the Ice Emperor froze out of history.

Fake oracle Kaia feeds an underwater supervolcano with seven identical prophecies, then must marry the dragon king who secretly built her greatest con.