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The Court of Gilded Iron

In the realm of Naetherys, magic is not a tool—it is truth.

The Elarin were born from the tears of the Ancient of Heart—souls shaped by grief and devotion, yet left without magic of their own. Among the many races of Fae who inhabit the scattered isles of Naetherys, magic answers only to truest intent. Words may lie. Magic never does.

Here, desire is not forbidden. Love is not hidden. Consent is sacred.
But fate—fate is something else entirely.

“Fate in Naetherys is not romance—it is a reckoning.”

Adaline has lived most of her life in the Court of Gilded Iron, raised as the king’s stepdaughter and known as its honorary princess. An Elarin believed to be forever magicless, she has grown up surrounded by power she does not possess—magic she cannot touch, dragons she will never ride—watching riders take to the skies while she keeps her dreams grounded in longing. She has spent decades overlooked, underestimated, and safely ignored. Until the day she is not.

When the ambassador of the Court of Eternal Darkness announces his arrival—and asks for her by name—Adaline becomes the center of a dangerous political game she never agreed to play. Stripped of autonomy and forced into decisions made without her consent, she must navigate a world where power is bartered through bloodlines, alliances, and ancient forces far older than any court.

In Naetherys, only those with royal Drakanyth blood may bond with dragons. Only the chosen may ride them. Dragons are not beasts of war, but sentient beings—thinking, feeling, choosing—bound in soul-deep partnership with their riders. And when dragon riders are bound as fated mates, their power—and their dragons—become something far more than the sum of their parts.

As courts maneuver for dominance and secrets long buried begin to stir, Adaline must decide who she is willing to become to protect the people she loves—and whether survival is worth the cost of surrendering herself.

The Court of Gilded Iron is the first book in a sweeping romantasy series filled with dragons, elemental magic, political intrigue, and a world where love can be a weapon, fate is a sentence, and truth is written not in words—but in power.