The Dragon's Contractual Bride
A Fantasy Romance Novel

About this book:

Clara Thorne has spent her life preserving dangerous books in a crumbling archive; Derek Drakon has spent his building a corporate empire on the bones of the competition. When the dragon CEO forecloses on her family's repository—giving her forty-eight hours to pay seven million credits or get out—Clara marches into his penthouse armed with nothing but obscure statutes, a fountain pen, and the terrifying suspicion that the fine print might be the only thing sharper than his teeth.

He expects a supplicant. She delivers a scholar's siege. But the contract he slides across the desk isn't a payment plan—it's a marriage clause buried in centuries of draconic law, binding their houses together to secure a magical convergence the city desperately needs. Now Clara is moving into a hoard of secrets, navigating boardroom sabotage and bedroom negotiations with a man who runs hot enough to melt steel, all while something ancient stirs in the restricted stacks below.

As rival corporations circle and the archive's wards begin to fail, the line between contractual obligation and accidental mating bond blurs into smoke. Clara has forty-eight hours to save her legacy, but it might take a lifetime to tame the beast who holds the deed—and the only way out is through the fire.