Elaria has crossed worlds for one simple reason: to find her mate.

After centuries of waiting for Vaelor, the black dragon who left on a distant mission and never returned, she finally tracks him down in the human world.

There is only one problem.

Vaelor now calls himself Duke Valerian Edevane.

He insists he is human.

He insists dragons do not exist.

And when Elaria calmly informs him that she is a dragon, he suggests that she go home.

Elaria refuses. Obviously. She did not cross worlds just to leave without her mate.
So she stays—learning human customs, navigating noble society, and trying to understand why Vaelor has forgotten everything, while Valerian struggles to explain the strange instincts telling him that this peculiar silver-haired woman belongs at his side.

And beneath their increasingly domestic life, something far older is beginning to wake.
Because Elaria may have found her mate.

Now she just has to convince him that he is one.