A Fire in the Sky

Penterra is a kingdom where dragons are extinct, witches are outcast and magic is slowly fading. Tamsyn has grown up beside the royal princesses, treated half as family and half as a servant. She is their "whipping girl", punished whenever they misbehave, and she heals unusually fast.

Then Fell, known as the Beast of the Borderlands, offers to guard the northern border if the crown gives him a royal bride. The royal family sends Tamsyn instead of a princess, and she is married to him under a veil.

Fell is furious when the trick is uncovered on their wedding night. Even so, he starts to protect her. Beyond the castle walls, Tamsyn comes across wild magic, and she finds it stirring inside herself too.

The story unfolds a hundred years after the Threshing swept dragons out of the world, and it works as an adult romantasy. It also precedes Sophie Jordan's YA Firelight series. As Tamsyn's power grows, secrets about her own past begin to surface.