Old Stone & Broken Gods

Her family is dead. The Queen's assassins are still hunting. And the creature bonded to her soul remembers things that should have stayed buried... Veyra Veltharn returned from five years of exile to bury her past, not join a tournament. But when a shadow drake bonds with her against every law of nature, she becomes something the noble houses have spent centuries trying to erase. Now she has two choices: run from the Queen's executioners, or walk into the Trial of Ascension; a competition built for the very aristocrats who want her dead. The shadow in her veins has other plans.