Hitman Ethan Cole expects to die when a mission sends him over a mountain cliff. Instead, he is caught in midair by Rowan Ashford—a dragon prince Ethan unknowingly saved twenty years ago. Rowan should take him home, heal his wounds, and disappear. Neither of them does. Forced into an uneasy seven-day arrangement, the guarded assassin and the stubborn prince slowly learn how to live beside each other: no locked doors, no following without permission, no hidden injuries, and no touching without asking. But Ethan’s stolen records reveal something far more dangerous. Missing dragons are being captured, priced, and sold as living cargo—and Rowan’s search for his people has placed him directly in the hunters’ path. As secret missions become shared ones and old debts turn into something neither man can dismiss, Rowan risks exposing his true form to keep Ethan alive. Ethan has spent his life believing survival means needing no one. Then a dragon prince keeps choosing to stay. And somewhere in the dark, a collector has just discovered exactly what Rowan is.
