Powerless half-blood Ella has spent her life being treated as less than nothing. After one unexpected night with Lucas, the Dragon King, she becomes pregnant with eight babies—and nearly pays for it with her life. Branded a criminal for carrying forbidden children, Ella is dragged to the Sacred Flame, until a dragon-scale necklace reveals the shocking truth: she's carrying Lucas's heirs. Lucas saves her and brings her into the palace, but prejudice follows. When their eight children face the empire's magic test, everyone expects them to fail. Instead, they may be about to shatter everything the Beastkin Empire believes about bloodlines.
