PART I Alina Rose is everything a proper teacher should be at the Christobel School for Girls. Hard-working, reserved, patient and strictly proper. Not a whiff of a scandal. Until a gorgeous and bedraggled draconian blast from her past all but kicks in her classroom door – sending the girls and her heart into a frenzy – demanding her return to Ravenscar.
Zahir Malladi, nothing but tall, dark and steel-muscled intensity. Still impatient and infuriating. Still able to reduce her good sense into a muddled mess of longing and what if’s she thought she left behind years ago, along with the secret shifter school.
A dragon shifter of Graëdor, Zahir doesn’t care for the Rose family politics or Alina’s aversion to Ravenscar – or possibly him. He’ll happily toss her over his shoulder and haul her back to the Yorkshire coast if he has to. A rising threat is targeting a new generation of shifters and Alina. And Zahir has already made up his mind he’s not going to let her go again.
PART II Kade McRae thinks he’s made it pretty damn clear that he is Graëdor in name only. The world can go straight to hell so long as it doesn’t trouble his mountains. Until that is, trouble arrives on his doorstep – Pepper Rose-Flynn.
Pepper will do anything to keep the students of Ravenscar safe. Go toe to toe with the scowling, ruthlessly handsome mountain man that she mooned over as a schoolgirl. Trespass on the Scottish scoundrel's half-assed hospitality. Chase after wayward students. Keep dangerous secrets. And not give Kade a choice about giving a damn.
Only as the days grow longer and more dangerous, Kade and Pepper soon realize they can only trust each other. And no number of stubborn stand-offs can temper the sparks between them.
PART III Lachlan Rose loves when the odds are impossibly stacked. In fact, he needs them to be. Last year he helped save the next generation of shifters and defeated a madman. It was a lark.
But Ceridwen Dwyer thinks it was nothing but a ruse. She's also known her fair share of arrogant academics, stubborn shifters, and domineering dragons. Nothing, however, could have prepared her for the cunning, towering, and sharp-tongued Lachlan Rose. Someone she pretends does not exist unless it's imagining revenge. Would it be so terrible to turn the Ravenscar heir into a toad?
So, when Ceri is afforded the perfect opportunity for a bit of revenge and putting the dragon in his place, she can't resist. Unfortunately, it all goes straight to hell.
PART IV After five years of avoiding each other, it’s safe to say that Jonathan Botín and Siani Dwyer have nothing in common. Except both of their summer plans have imploded and they're now stuck working together.
Instead of going abroad, Siani will be the dominant dragon’s new assistant, when all Jonathan wanted was a few peaceful months on the coast to get his head together. Now he’s butting heads with a beautiful distraction whose head is in the clouds and who still has no idea of the explosive secret that binds their fates.
Jonathan and Siani are supposed to represent the new Alliance era of progressive thinking and collaboration that has grown in the six years since the crossroads at the Solstice Gathering. Only they can’t even get through a single conversation without it turning into an argument.
PART V How the hell did Luka Chellini end up babysitting a witch? Not any witch. This witch. You know, the sweet, pocket-sized one with gold hair and curves, and a distracting laugh? The same one he somehow managed to tick off, because that’s his dragon-given talent? Ah, right, because she’s supposed to save the world.
Eirlys Dwyer doesn’t mind being overlooked. Sometimes she prefers it. Only it’s impossible with Luka Chellini, the dragon assigned to guard her, now that there’s a month left until she has to fulfill her duty as the Kin Savior...
There were a lot of reasons to like this series and, for me, only 1 thing that drove me crazy and made me want to quit reading each story part way through each one. That is for each story, the H and h had known each other for quite a while... years in a of the stories and a few most of their lives. But yet the stories take until almost the end before they finally figure out that they love each other and are meant to be. It was so bad in the very first story that it few like it was giving me whiplash in the way they dealt with their feelings. Although for me, even though each story was like this, the 1st story was the worst for this and the last story was my favorite. Besos this issue, the world building and the overall story was extremely good. The characters were developed well also. TBE stories overall is worth the read.
I absolutely loved the mixture of witches and shifters. I am not a big shifter book reader and this series had me from the start. I would recommend this series to anyone looking for a great to fall in love with.
I’m not that sure about this book. I like world, but every important conversation gets interrupted. Like every one! The back and forth between Alina and Zahir and hiding their true feelings, because they weren’t sure of the other’s, got exhausting. It’s like the author couldn’t think of anything else to write about and needed filler so, “I’ll add another angsty convo that goes nowhere!” If the other books are like the first, I probably won’t finish the series. I gave 3 stars because I do really like the world the author created.