Elara had given up everything to rescue Lucien, the pureblood phoenix who once begged for her protection. But the one she saved repaid her with contempt: he burned her skin, drifted toward Seraphina, and treated Elara like a shameful afterthought. Humiliated and embittered by his own bloodline, Lucien grew harsher by the day. When Elara could no longer endure his cruelty, she turned to the Registry for a pet transfer—and there, she found Kael, an unwanted dragonkin facing the deadly Blackmoor Tria.