Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) By: Rebecca Yarros Published: January 21, 2025 by Red Tower Books 758 pages Genres/Themes: Romantasy, Fantasy, Romance, Dragons, Fae, Magic, Adult, New Adult Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him. Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can...

The Dragon's Price (Transference #1) By: Bethany Wiggins Published: February 21, 2017 by Crown Books for Young Readers 304 pages Source: ebook, Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Fans of Julie Kagawa’s  Talon  and Renee Ahdieh’s  The Wrath and the Dawn  will devour this action-packed fantasy adventure about a girl who chooses to surrender herself to a deadly dragon rather than marry an enemy prince. When two warring kingdoms unified against a deadly menace laying waste to both their lands, they had to make a choice: vow to marry their heirs to one another, or forfeit their lives to the dragon. Centuries later, everyone expects the sheltered princess Sorrowlynn to choose the barbarian prince over the fire-breathing beast—everyone, that is, except Sorrow, who is determined to control her own destiny or die trying. As she is lowered into the dragon’s chamber, she assumes her life is over until Golmarr, the young prince ...

The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire #1) By: C.J. Redwine Published: February 23, 2016 by Balzer & Bray 400 pages Source: Edelweiss ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common—magic. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen. In the neighboring kingdom of Eldr, when Prince Kol’s father and older brother are killed by an invading army of magic-wielding ogres, the second-born prince is suddenly given the responsibility of saving his kingdom. To do that, Kol needs magic—and the only way to get it is to make a deal with the queen of Ravenspire, promise to become her personal huntsman…and bring her Lorelai’s heart. But Lorelai is nothing like Kol exp...