After her mate and adopted sister betray her, Lydia is condemned to the Blackthorn Abyss with her golden dragon egg stolen and replaced by a black one. She dies in dragon fire—then awakens on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, before the bloodline prophecy that once sealed her fate. This time, Lydia refuses to play by their rules. She chooses a mysterious black dragon from the abyss as her mate and soon gives birth to nine extraordinary black eggs. As her enemies brand her children as monsters, Lydia fights to protect them and expose the bloodline fraud. But the feared black dragon is actually Cade, the hidden Dragon Ancestor—and the father of her children.
