Dragon-Rider Romantasy · Skarreth Wingwatch

Chosen at First Light

For forty years the old bronze has refused every rider. At first light she walks past the best candidate in the wing and chooses the clerk beside him.

Linnet Brierly copied other people's names into the Wingwatch rolls before she entered Muster herself. Now she is bonded to Corva, a grieving bronze who will fly her no higher than the cliff-top and tells her exactly why a clerk is not good enough. And Daven Cassel, who has wanted that dragon since he was ten, is in her wing, where the rule is absolute: a rider who breaks formation for a lover gets the wing killed.

He despises her in public. In private, he is the only one who saw Corva's fear of the passes coming, and he gives up his rest days to drill her in the crosswind until rivalry turns into trust and trust into a night that breaks the rule they both believe in. Then the convoy flies into the Greylag Gap, and the rule stops being a theory.

A complete, steamy dragon-rider romance with an imperious dragon, a war college, a guaranteed happy ending and no cliffhanger. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Yarros and Briar Boleyn.

Publication: October 2026
Pages: ≈ 164