The dragon is gone. The blade is silent. Now a traitor plans to end the world.
The battle for Graystone is over, but peace has not returned. Marcus Reed, once the kingdom’s most trusted strategist, has betrayed them all. With Eldergate’s clockwork armies within his grasp, Reed intends to turn the city into a weapon that will break the realm beyond repair.
Thomas Carter, the blacksmith who once bore the Dragonblade, refuses to let Reed’s vision come to pass. But grief still dogs his steps, and the weight of past failures threatens to crush him. At his side, healer Eliza Bennett fights to keep hope alive, not only for the world, but for Thomas himself. And when fate brings them to Lily Cinderwing, a Scion born of dragon and mortal blood, they discover a power Reed cannot calculate or control.
Together, they must stand against a man who would trade the kingdom’s last breath for his own cold design. Eldergate’s streets will run with fire, its gears turned to war, and its people caught in a battle between ruthless logic and fragile hope.
In the third chapter of the A Dragon's Concern, alliances will be tested, legacies revealed, and the cost of defiance measured in blood. The world is breaking and only those willing to sacrifice everything can stop it from falling into ruin.