The Serpent and the Lark

She was sent to kill him. She built the case that saved him instead.

Elin Voss has spent four years as one of the Rebellion's most capable operatives, shaped by grief and directed toward a single purpose: infiltrate the court of Kael, the shapeshifting dragon-king of Vaelthorn, and end his reign quietly. The method is clean. The cover is solid. The mission is straightforward.

It stops being straightforward the moment she arrives.

Because Kael is already being poisoned - by his own court, with ...