Kingdom of Roses and Flame: Belle and the Dragon King (Fated Fairytales Book 2)

She walked into the dragon's lair to save her father—and walked out belonging to a king.

Belle Ashford has no patience for tyrants, even beautiful, fire-breathing ones. When the fearsome Dragon King seizes her as payment for her father's debt, she arrives at his obsidian castle with her chin raised and her fury burning hotter than anything he can breathe. She will not cower. She will not yield. And she absolutely will not fall for the cold, scarred ruler who watches her like she's the most dangerous thing in his entire kingdom.

Kael has ruled through fear for so long he's forgotten what it feels like to be *seen*. He expects his captive to tremble. Instead, she argues with him at dinner, rearranges his library without permission, and looks at him like he's a puzzle she's already halfway to solving. The roses in his cursed garden bloom for the first time in a century.

But kingdoms don't survive on stolen glances and midnight conversations. There are enemies who want Kael's throne, secrets buried beneath the castle's foundations, and a prophecy that promises the Dragon King can only be saved—or destroyed—by the woman fate chose for him.

Belle came here as a prisoner.

She stays because something in his broken kingdom feels terrifyingly like home.

*Some beasts aren't meant to be tamed. They're meant to be loved.*