Scales of Desire

In the frontier city of Velyndar’s Gate, where merchants and mercenaries rub shoulders with mages and monsters, duty binds them—but passion may break the chains.   Sarkhess, a stoic lizardfolk mercenary and decorated veteran of the Lizard Marsh campaigns, is sworn to the strict codes of honor of his clutch. He lives by instinct, discipline, and steel. But when he’s assigned to guard a visiting envoy—Lady Azuryne Vel'Kessar, a sharp-tongued and ambitious blue dragonborn noblewoman—his world is turned upside down.   Azuryne, a rising star in the embattled House Vel'Kessar, has no patience for tradition, or for the hired sword who watches her like prey. Yet beneath his scales lies a mystery that calls to the storm in her blood. As political intrigue and arcane secrets entangle them both, Azuryne and Sarkhess must decide: will they risk war, scandal, and their very lives for a love that defies centuries of bloodlines and betrayal?