The dragon’s call awakened him. Now others seek to claim its song. Months after escaping the horrors of Sturmov Manor, Callen Nasinth—once the Nightshade, the Black Veil’s deadliest assassin—has carved out a fragile peace in the hidden valley of the Ashen Oath. With Nora thriving in her Pyrin training and Amara by his side, he dares to believe they’ve finally found safety. But peace is short-lived. When an outpost burns with unnatural fire and a lone survivor speaks of a scale-skinned commander who wields the drift like a weapon, Callen realizes his former mentor Stark is not only alive—he’s become something more than human. Something forged in dragon fire. To stop him, Callen must risk reopening the connection he’s fought to suppress—the drift that links him to ancient power and to a dragon whose presence still haunts his dreams. Yet Stark isn’t the only one with plans for the fragments. In the shadows, others study the drift, manipulate it, and prepare to use it to reshape the world. As enemies close in from all sides, Callen faces a terrifying The dragon’s song isn’t just waking him. It’s changing him. BENEATH THE SCALES is the second volume in Drift and Dragon, a gripping fantasy of found family, hidden power, and the cost of becoming something more than human.