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A Witch and Her Dragon
by Emberly Wyndham
medium-paced
"....it’s my job to protect her, even if that means keeping young men and their twisted thoughts away from her.
What about my twisted thoughts?
It’s not lost on me that I’m the most dangerous thing here." (Ch 8)
Princess Alina gets accepted into the coveted Coven Crest Academy. It's her dream to learn to control her magic and to become a powerful frost witch.
The king, Alina's grandfather, assigns a palace guard, Raelan, to be the princess' bodyguard. But Raelan has secrets that he must keep hidden and contained; he is a dragon shifter AND Alina is his fated mate. It's torture to be around her. His beast is a terror, fighting to be released whenever she is around.
Resigning to her grandfather's conditions to attend the academy, Alina reluctantly accepts her new and most confusing brooding shadow.
It is an agonizing struggle for Raelan, he wants nothing, but to put her at a distance, yet she is clueless. She barely acknowledges him, but when she does it's to direct her anger toward him or to look at him, it's as if she thinks something is truly wrong with him.
"“I’m just saying, he watches you like he wants to eat you,” Lyra says. She twists a curl around her finger. “I’m pretty jealous, to be honest."” (Ch 11)
Can he survive grappling daily between his dragon’s desires to claim his mate and his need to get away from her lure and intoxicating scent? Can he keep her safe?
"When she looks up at me, her brow is furrowed, her eyes burning with blue fire. And it does something to me. It makes me want to crush my mouth to hers, to run my tongue along her lips until they’re no longer twisted into such an angry scowl." (Ch 10)
Will she ever warm up to him?
A protector who doesn't want to protect, a protectee who wants freedom from her royal constraints. There is resistance and denial, a whole lot of it. There is jealousy, unbidden and unwanted in both parties. A dragon that wants to break free from its chains. Lots of internal conflict, but when that morphs into something more, when the frost thaws, when they give in... there is only heat and danger.
This one, I wouldn't call it cozy, exactly. It"s full of tension, much less sweet and cute, more the need for cold showers because of all the denial and evading. Plus the added bonus of an unexpected different kind of threat and a sinister plot.
Though part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.
eARC courtesy of The Cozy Coven, Emberly Wyndham, and BookSprout
What about my twisted thoughts?
It’s not lost on me that I’m the most dangerous thing here." (Ch 8)
Princess Alina gets accepted into the coveted Coven Crest Academy. It's her dream to learn to control her magic and to become a powerful frost witch.
The king, Alina's grandfather, assigns a palace guard, Raelan, to be the princess' bodyguard. But Raelan has secrets that he must keep hidden and contained; he is a dragon shifter AND Alina is his fated mate. It's torture to be around her. His beast is a terror, fighting to be released whenever she is around.
Resigning to her grandfather's conditions to attend the academy, Alina reluctantly accepts her new and most confusing brooding shadow.
It is an agonizing struggle for Raelan, he wants nothing, but to put her at a distance, yet she is clueless. She barely acknowledges him, but when she does it's to direct her anger toward him or to look at him, it's as if she thinks something is truly wrong with him.
"“I’m just saying, he watches you like he wants to eat you,” Lyra says. She twists a curl around her finger. “I’m pretty jealous, to be honest."” (Ch 11)
Can he survive grappling daily between his dragon’s desires to claim his mate and his need to get away from her lure and intoxicating scent? Can he keep her safe?
"When she looks up at me, her brow is furrowed, her eyes burning with blue fire. And it does something to me. It makes me want to crush my mouth to hers, to run my tongue along her lips until they’re no longer twisted into such an angry scowl." (Ch 10)
Will she ever warm up to him?
A protector who doesn't want to protect, a protectee who wants freedom from her royal constraints. There is resistance and denial, a whole lot of it. There is jealousy, unbidden and unwanted in both parties. A dragon that wants to break free from its chains. Lots of internal conflict, but when that morphs into something more, when the frost thaws, when they give in... there is only heat and danger.
This one, I wouldn't call it cozy, exactly. It"s full of tension, much less sweet and cute, more the need for cold showers because of all the denial and evading. Plus the added bonus of an unexpected different kind of threat and a sinister plot.
Though part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.
eARC courtesy of The Cozy Coven, Emberly Wyndham, and BookSprout
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Kidnapping
Minor: Violence