Description
Tavira Orsenne was raised to be useful.
Trained in languages, court politics, poisons, medicine, observation, and the anatomy of dragons, she has spent her life preparing for missions other people choose for her.
Then the Sisters give her the most dangerous assignment yet.
Marry King Zevren Orlath of Ravessyr.
Discover whether his bond with Thyrravor—the ancient Dragon of Ruin—is failing.
And if necessary, kill the dragon before an entire kingdom burns with him.
But Ravessyr is built on secrets older than its throne.
Zevren accepted Tavira’s mysterious marriage proposal far too quickly. Thyrravor remembers histories that humans deliberately erased. And beneath the Black Crown lies evidence that the seven legendary powers shaping the kingdoms were never seven at all.
There was an eighth.
Choice.
A force erased from history because it could do what kings, dragons, priests, and empires feared most: make obedience optional.
As Tavira uncovers the truth about her bloodline, her mother, and the ancient Crown Bonds, the mission that brought her to Ravessyr begins to collapse. The king she was meant to manipulate becomes the first man who consistently asks instead of commands. The dragon she was prepared to kill may be a prisoner rather than a monster.
And the people who raised Tavira may have spent her entire life preparing her not to save the old system—but to become its final key.
Now kingdoms are destabilizing. Dragons are beginning to remember. An ancient mechanism designed to preserve power is waking beneath the palace.
And Tavira must decide whether saving the world means preserving what holds it together… or giving everyone, human and dragon alike, the right to walk away.
The King I Was Sent to Burn is an adult epic romantasy featuring political intrigue, ancient dragons, a marriage built on dangerous secrets, a powerful heroine discovering the truth of her own identity, morally complex characters, explicit romance, and a magic system centered on consent, power, freedom, and the consequences of choice.
