The job should have been simple. Get in, slay the dragon, and end the hunting season with plenty of gold. But what you don't know can definitely hurt you. Hui-Seun expects a simple hunt and a clean kill. Instead she finds an angry, ancient half-dragon bent on conquering her home. Held captive by her prey, the dragonslayer must think on her feet—first to keep a beast with delusions of monarchy from putting flame to the countryside, and then to get free. You don't become a dragonslayer without an interest in dragons, though, and forced proximity makes for a lot of learning opportunities. As the days roll past and walls come down, Hui-Seun learns more about the mysterious, beautiful half-dragon keeping her chained to a wall... and discovers that he's not the beast she imagined. But dragons and dragonslayers have always been linked by the flight of an arrow, and when others come to finish the job, Hui-Seun must choose where her loyalties lie—with the people she's sworn to protect, or the creature she desires.