Kingdom of Shadows and Wings (Dragons of Tirene Book 1)

When the king commands you to take your missing sister's place at the most dangerous flight academy in the kingdom, you have two choices: obey or die. For nineteen-year-old Lark Axton, the problem is she's absolutely terrified of flying.

Raised behind castle walls under her mother's suffocating protection, Lark has never been anyone's idea of a warrior. But the realm of Aclaris needs a body to fill her sister's empty seat at Flighthaven, where the kingdom's elite train to battle winged enemies and master the fearsome dragons that rule the skies. Now Lark is thrust into a world of brutal training, deadly secrets, and rivals who would love nothing more than to see her fail.

Among them is someone whose cold contempt cuts sharper than any blade — someone whose hatred feels almost personal. Almost deliberate. Almost like he knows something about her sister's disappearance that he isn't saying.

As Lark fights to survive Flighthaven's punishing trials, she begins to suspect that the danger stalking the academy runs far deeper than rivalry or politics. The truth about her sister is buried somewhere in this fortress of shadows and wings — and the infuriating, impossible man who despises her most might be the only one who can help her find it.

If they don't destroy each other first.

*Kingdom of Shadows and Wings* is the spectacular first installment of the complete five-book *Dragons of Tirene* series — a forbidden romantasy that proves the line between enemies and lovers is dangerously thin.