Blood of the Chosen: Destiny splits them. Blood calls to dragons—and to betrayal.

di Lucian Reef (Autore)

Lucian Reef, 2025

In a world where another dragon war waits just beneath the soil, a single song has the power to decide the fate of kingdoms. Lumiere, the last surviving dragonbinder of Lumea, has spent his life sealed inside a tower—raised not as a child, but as a tool. His voice can command dragons, but every note cuts him from the inside like a reversed blade. Music, for him, is both prison and curse: the chain that binds him and the key that could ignite ruin. When the Astraean army sends Rayden—a second prince who never wanted a throne—into the deep forests to investigate the strange red mist spreading across the land, he does not expect to find a boy locked away with a prophecy carved into his skin. He expects even less that an ancient blood-bond would snap awake the moment he touches Lumiere, tying their heartbeats together in a way no priest had foreseen. One heartbeat stumbles; the other falters with it. One bleeds; the other gasps. And the closer the two are pulled, the clearer the prophecy becomes—Rayden is not just entangled. He is being chosen. What begins as a rescue becomes an unraveling. Lumiere's song stirs dragons that should still be sleeping, including the White-Fire Dragon buried beneath Lumea's capital—an ancient beast whose awakening would scorch cities to glass. The forbidden verses of the prophecy, long burned by the Lumean council, reveal a truth no one wanted: "The binder chooses the king." Not a weapon. Not a curse. A judge of who deserves a crown. Serel, the knight who has guarded Rayden all his life, watches the bond tighten with something like dread. The friendship he once swore to protect now stands on fractured ground—split by jealousy, loyalty, fear, and a tethered magic that answers Lumiere's breath before it answers Rayden's own will. Each night around the campfire, Serel witnesses the unspoken tug between them, and realizes the path ahead no longer belongs to the old world he and Rayden fought for. As war gathers at the borders, Lumiere must confront the truth he was never allowed to learn: he is not meant to burn the world, but to steer it. To decide which king the dragons will bow to. And Rayden, marked by blood and dragon-shadow alike, must decide whether he will step onto the path prophecy has laid for him—or tear it apart for the sake of the boy who believes he himself is a disaster waiting to happen. This is a story of bond and blood; of music and fire; of a prince who never sought a crown and a boy who never believed he deserved a choice. Dragons answer conviction, not command. Songs bend for the heart that hears them. And the smallest tremor of trust between two people may be enough to wake a creature that has slept beneath stone for centuries. When Lumiere's first trembling song rises into the trees, when the dragon's shadow bends toward Rayden instead of the priests, when their heartbeats echo—dangerously, impossibly—in unison— the next war does not begin with armies. It begins with a song.

• Autore: Lucian Reef
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Lucian Reef
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232121532