Sinopsis

Dragons are more than what science expected of them, emerging from a long extinction with mankind’s intelligence and the ability to wear the human form as naturally as their own. They are all the things that set humans apart from other animals, yet they are bought and sold like property in a thriving exotic pet trade.

Detective Noah Lark never wanted anything to do with this system. He does the work he believes he can accomplish, investigating organized crime in his Oregon community and leaving the fight for dragon welfare to more ambitious people. He never dreamed that the case of a lifetime would center around a dragon fighting ring, nor could he have imagined that he’d form a personal attachment to his key witness, the dangerous, bad-tempered drake called Liam. But Liam is living on borrowed time. Mandatory euthanasia awaits any dragon fought in a ring, and when the federal government connects Liam’s bloodline to a far deadlier threat, the odds of his survival diminish to nothing. As a matter of practicality, Noah has never stood against the impossible, but the losing battle for Liam’s life may become the most important one he’s ever fought.