Chanda, cursed to dragon form for her sins by She Who Hung the Moon, and Jalan, the Krait warrior who is her perfect match, must win an impossible battle. Jalan must love her...and then kill her. She must love him...and die.

Eleni is fighting for her life and her sanity in the Green Lands. She's so desperate, she believes barbaric Keldar is her only hope. Having convinced her brother he should send her as an ambassador, she allows herself to be captured and sold to the Keldari warrior Zahar. Zahar has plans for Eleni. Her unique bloodline means she can appear to fulfill a prophecy that will make the man who holds her the ruler of all of Keldar; so he's going to give her to his brother. The gods have other plans for Eleni and Zahar; plans that may not leave them alive at the end.