Scarred, crippled in the hands, and stripped of her honor, Elara was destroyed by the three brothers her dying mother had begged to protect her, all to crown their father's bastard as the future Queen. She signed away her name and married the territory's broken cripple, the Dragon King's Hand. But the man in the wheelchair was no cripple at all. As her brothers tore the realm apart searching for her, Elara watched from the shadows while everyone who wronged her fell, one by one. Some bonds, once severed, can never be made whole.
