For Lydia, every birth only deepened the betrayal. As a fertile rabbit-kin trapped in marriage to dragon king Edmund, she watched him give away each cub she carried and lie about their fate. But when he decides their unborn tenth cub should be abandoned for another woman, Lydia finally snaps. She rescues Ignatius, Edmund’s imprisoned elder brother and true heir, and makes a bold promise: she will marry him and give him the heir he needs to take back the throne.