Summoner Circuit [Monster-Taming Progression Romance]

Nine wins, zero losses — and not one of them counts. Tala Brennan came to the East Coast circuit from Galway with three first-form creatures, eleven dollars, and a dragon that's been bonded to her for ten years and still hasn't evolved. The American circuit doesn't take car-park records. So she'll earn new ones — badge by badge, bond by bond, winning fights by reading the gap between a trainer's command and his creature's execution before he knows it's there. Then she challenges a stranger on a roadside carrying more fire than anyone she's ever felt. She wagers her money and her time against him. She loses both. Now she's bound to him by an open-ended service debt until she can buy her way free — and he's the only summoner alive who can see what's sleeping inside her dragon, and why ten years of bond still hasn't been enough to wake it. Grounded modern monster-taming where power lives in the bond, battles are won by reading people, and the romance is built one repeated word at a time. Pokémon-inspired creature combat with the slow-burn weight of Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. ⚠️ Mature: circuit violence, language, fade-to-black intimacy. Unfaded chapters mirror on ScribbleHub.