LOGINIn a world where dragon shifters once ruled alongside humans in a delicate magical monarchy, a catastrophic war 300 years ago left the dragons nearly extinct. Now, in modern-day Seattle, 25-year-old Maya Chen discovers she's the last fertile female dragon shifter when she spontaneously shifts during a panic attack at her corporate job. The twist: There are only seven male dragon shifters left worldwide, each bound by ancient magic to different elements (fire, ice, storm, earth, shadow, light, and void). Maya's emergence triggers a supernatural召唤 summoning that compels all seven to converge on Seattle, their dragon instincts screaming that the survival of their species depends on her. But Maya isn't interested in being anyone's salvation. She's a fiercely independent software engineer who just learned that her chronic anxiety and "weird dreams" were actually her dragon trying to emerge. As the males arrive—each incredibly powerful, devastatingly attractive, and convinced they're destined to be her mate—Maya must navigate not only her new abilities but also the political intrigue of a hidden supernatural world. The complication: An ancient enemy, the Order of the Silver Chain, has been hunting dragons for centuries and will stop at nothing to eliminate this last chance for the species to survive. Meanwhile, Maya discovers that the seven males can't all survive—the magic binding them means that when she chooses her mate(s), the others will lose their dragon forever. The story blends urban fantasy with romantic tension, found family dynamics, and the pressure of being the key to an entire species' survival while trying to figure out who you really are. However, what if all seven of them were her mates? Would that allow them to save their kind?
View More"Too many," Leon replied, his enhanced hearing parsing the sounds from above. "At least twenty. Military-trained. They know what they're hunting."Another bolt ricocheted into the chamber, this one trailing silver wire that sparked against the stone. Where it touched, Maya felt a wrongness that made her newly awakened dragon nature recoil in pain."Silver-core ammunition," Darius rumbled, his earthen skin hardening to granite. "They're not here to capture."Maya's vision blurred as another wave of transformation rippled through her. She could feel her human form beginning to dissolve, her consciousness expanding beyond the confines of flesh and bone. Soon, there would be nothing left but raw power and instinct."Choose," Xander said, his void-touched voice cutting through the chaos with unnatural clarity. "Choose, or we all burn."Maya looked around the circle of dragons—her potential mates, her anchors, her salvation or destruction. Above them, the hunters were breaking through the m
"She's reaching critical resonance," Vivienne warned, backing toward the chamber walls. "If she doesn't bond soon—""The museum will become a crater," Leon finished grimly. "Along with several city blocks.""I won't be responsible for that," Maya gasped, the light now so bright it cast stark shadows behind each dragon. "Tell me how to stop it. Tell me how to make it stop."The void dragon moved closer, and Maya's light seemed to bend around him, creating an eerie halo effect. "There is only one way to stabilise a light dragon's first manifestation. You must choose your primary bond.""I don't know any of you," Maya protested, though her treacherous body was already cataloguing the way Leon's shadows seemed to dance with her light, how Kai's fire called to something wild in her chest, how the storm dragon's electricity made her skin tingle with recognition."You know us," the earth dragon rumbled, speaking for the first time. His voice was like shifting tectonic plates. "Your resonance
"Or what?" Maya pressed, even as the chamber temperature rose another ten degrees."Or ignite a war that will consume both dragons and humans alike." Vivienne moved swiftly to the centre of the room, placing the silk-wrapped pendant on an eighth pedestal Maya hadn't noticed before. "Your mother chose exile to prevent this moment. She believed removing herself from dragon society would break the prophecy's chain."The pendant unwrapped itself, the silk falling away as if pushed by invisible hands. The dragon carving levitated, spinning slowly, its crystalline body catching Maya's light and fracturing it into rainbow patterns across the chamber walls.A voice called from the passage—deep, commanding. "She's here. I can feel her resonance.""Leon," Maya whispered, recognising the voice instantly, even though she'd exchanged barely a dozen words with him."Shadow dragon," Vivienne confirmed. "The most dangerous of your suitors, perhaps. Practical. Strategic. Capable of terrible patience."
"What is that?" Maya whispered, though part of her already knew."Your inheritance," Vivienne said simply. "And your awakening."The museum's lights flickered, and Maya smelled smoke.“Ah, it appears that your mates have arrived as prophesied, all seven, a millennium ago,” Vivienne said matter-of-factly.Maya's knees nearly buckled. "My what?"The scent of smoke intensified, accompanied by something that reminded her of winter storms and deep ocean currents. She glimpsed shadows moving with inhuman speed across the courtyard through the museum's reinforced windows."Seven bloodlines," Vivienne continued, carefully rewrapping the pendant. "Fire, ice, storm, earth, shadow, light, and void. Each drawn by the same resonance that's been building inside you for weeks. Your mother's lineage is... unique. Light dragons are exceptionally rare, and when one awakens—""This is insane." Maya backed toward the door, but her body betrayed her, trembling with an anticipation she couldn't understand.
The first time Maya Chen's eyes turned gold, she was in the middle of presenting third-quarter projections to the entire executive board.It happened without warning—a sudden rush of heat up her spine, a strange prickling sensation across her skin, and then the startled expression of her CEO as he stared directly at her face. Maya faltered mid-sentence, her carefully prepared statistics momentarily forgotten."Ms. Chen, are you feeling well?" Mr. Patterson's voice cut through the silence.Maya blinked rapidly, feeling a strange pressure behind her eyes. "Yes, I-I'm fine. Just a migraine coming on." She steadied and continued her presentation, ignoring the whispers rippling through the conference room.Later, locked in a bathroom stall, Maya stared at her reflection on her phone's camera. Her eyes were normal again—dark brown, not the impossible molten gold she'd glimpsed on the reflective surface of the conference table. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to calm the anxiety
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