Dragon's Beauty

I spent years teaching everyone that women like me should never fall for males like him.

Now the dragon warrior who calls me treasure is the only person who has ever seen the woman beneath my crown.

Wrenlee was born into wealth, beauty, and influence aboard the generation ship. Even after the crash stranded humanity on Tajss, she rebuilt her throne from gossip, flawless smiles, and the carefully polished reputation that earned her the name Ice Queen.

She also helped create one of the ugliest rules in her new society.

Elite human women do not mate with aliens.

Then Sek'su walks into her life.

The Cavern Zmaj warrior is enormous, dangerously handsome, and completely incapable of playing Wrenlee's social games. He paints her portrait by hand, calls her his treasure, and looks at her with a devotion no human man has ever offered without wanting something in return.

Wrenlee knows exactly what falling for him will cost.

So she keeps him secret.

Their stolen nights burn hotter than either of Tajss's red suns, but the more time Wrenlee spends in Sek'su's arms, the harder it becomes to return to the cold, hollow life she built for herself. He does not care about her family name, her beauty-pageant crown, or the crowds waiting to dissect her every mistake.

He cares about her.

The real her.

Sek'su knows Wrenlee is his mate from the moment he sees her. What he cannot understand is why she hides him, denies him in public, and treats their love as something shameful. He will honor every promise she asks of him, but a Zmaj warrior was never meant to love in the shadows.

When their secret begins to leak, Wrenlee's oldest rival seizes the chance to destroy her. Reporters circle. Rumors turn vicious. Worst of all, Wrenlee's own past words return as a weapon against the male who has trusted her with his heart.

One public kiss shatters every careful plan.

To protect the reputation she has spent a lifetime defending, Wrenlee pushes Sek'su away. Breaking his heart nearly breaks her with it.

But losing him forces the Ice Queen to face the truth.

Her gilded crown was always a cage.

If Wrenlee wants a future with Sek'su, she must do the one thing she has avoided all her life: admit she was wrong. Publicly. Completely. Without twisting the truth or sacrificing someone else to save herself.

Sek'su is ready to stand beside her before the entire compound.

The question is whether Wrenlee is brave enough to let the old Ice Queen fall and become a woman worthy of the love she has finally found.

Dragon's Beauty is a steamy wrong-side-of-the-tracks alien dragon romance featuring a former socialite heroine, a devoted artist-warrior, forbidden interspecies love, secret stolen encounters, he-falls-first devotion, fated mates, public scandal, social prejudice, self-reinvention, female redemption, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after.