Letters to the Deep Blue

In the sixth year of her marriage, Erin Reed still has not given Black Dragon Crown Prince Ronan Hawthorne an heir. Since childhood, she has been regarded as a low-ranking mixed-blood because of her weak dragon breath and inability to assume a complete dragon form. For six years, she has endured endless dragon-blood potions and even a failed pregnancy, never knowing that Ronan has secretly ordered the royal physician to add suppressants to her medicine. He needs a pureblood heir to secure his claim to the throne, yet fears that a biological child of Erin’s might one day become more important to her than he is. So he signs a breeding contract with red-dragon scholar Cecilia Ashton, who gives birth to twins. Ronan plans to have Erin, as Crown Princess, place her seal on the children so they can enter the legitimate royal lineage and then be raised by her. After discovering the truth at the Sacred Healing Tower, Erin decides to dissolve their mating bond, only to realize that Ronan controls her money, her movements, and even her ability to support herself. Soon afterward, Cecilia is deceived by an herbal supplier who once worked with the academy. He claims that he will return certain records and that the twins only need to provide a small blood sample for lineage verification, persuading Cecilia to take the children to the Free City of Knox. Instead, all three are seized by an underground dragon-blood workshop and bound with blood locks. Determined to rescue Cecilia and the twins in secret, Ronan forcibly activates the blood seal of his marriage bond and leaves the unexpectedly pregnant Erin behind as a hostage. But when the blood-testing crystal reacts to Erin, it shines an unprecedented deep blue. Erin is rescued by the Knox Dragon Guard, but loses the child she was carrying. Under the protection of the Neutral Council, she leaves completely behind under a new name: Eve Lane. Two years later, Erin enrolls at Aelton High Academy, where she studies territorial governan