The book that started it all...first in the New York Times bestselling Dragon Kin series--an action-packed, thrilling, laugh-out-loud funny story that will leave you wondering how you've lived so long without these shifters in your life. Writing with the sensuality of Kresley Cole and the same outlandish humor as Lynsay Sands. New York Times bestselling author G.A. Aiken brings readers the first book in her hugely popular Dragon Kin series, repackaged with a brand-new bonus novella.  It's not easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear, or else salute. It's true she has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother's soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man...the way she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer. Too bad Fearghus is a dragon. With him, Annwyl feels safe--a far cry from the feelings aroused by the hard-bodied, arrogant knight Fearghus has arranged to help train her for battle. With her days spent fighting a man who fills her with fierce, heady desire, and her nights spent in the company of a magical creature who could smite a village just by exhaling, Annwyl is sure life couldn't get any stranger.