For eight exhausting years, half-blood dragon speaker Valeria was bound by a blood contract to Duke Loris at the Golden Wing Dragon Fort, forced to serve as an uncredited stand-in for the pampered saintess Katrina. Valeria single-handedly tamed the ferocious dragon swarms and defended the frontier from collapse, yet received only cruelty, suspicion, and imprisonment in return. When Katrina's reckless arrogance triggers a catastrophic beast rampage, Duke Loris cruelly frames Valeria for the disaster, pushing her to the brink of death. Refusing to be sacrificed any longer, Valeria tears apart the binding blood oath and walks out into the wild. She is welcomed by the Black Dragon Court, where the legendary dragon Cedric forms an equal sovereign pact with her. Meanwhile, Loris's dragons run amok and his fortress burns to ashes without Valeria's song. Will Loris's desperate pleas save his crumbling realm from dragon fury?