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, Adira finds her love only growing for the cursed prince of Gondra. Now she is left in, not only a fight for life and death, but also with her own heart.