Adira lost her family to the dragon and the curse that devoured their kingdom when she was only a child. Now on the threshold of womanhood she is finding her new life in peril as she, not only finds herself facing the dragon again, but also that her late mother had promised long ago that she would marry the son of Lord Boucher. What's worse, Adira is already in love with someone else and through circumstances finds herself actually fighting to save the very dragon that had torn her world in two. When she is forced to marry Lord Boucher's son Dante, a man she does not love, to save her people,...

**** The world was hers and everything in it, until one mistake took it all away. Being a prisoner of the pirates for fifteen years left Lavender with little hope of ever finding freedom from her torment. Love lost, Willoughby gives his entire life to serve in the militia of a foreign land... Until he is taken captive aboard a pirate ship. Now he is left with two choices - Fill dead men's shoes or die himself. Little does he know that he is about to encounter the one woman who can heal his heart and maybe together they can find freedom, not only from their captors but also from their past....