The Bond That Burns

Medra Pendragon wakes a dragon that has slept for generations. The highblood houses that run Bloodwing Academy want to own what she has just become. She has no real control over Nyxaris, only a bluff she cannot afford to drop.

Her one shield is Blake Drakharrow, the vampire heir who tricked her into a blood bond. He now depends on her blood to survive. Confined at Drakharrow Tower, she waits while a tribunal argues over who holds claim to her and the dragon. Her own say is never asked.

This is the second book in the Bloodwing Academy series. It is dark academia romantasy: vampires and dragon-riders, noble houses that trade in blood and favor. The romance runs enemies-to-lovers under forced proximity, Blake's cruelty knotted with a protectiveness he refuses to name.

The pace is fast and the mood tense, built on betrayal and control rather than comfort. It continues directly from On Wings of Blood, the first Bloodwing Academy novel.