The dragons are gone. Their blood is not.
Adam has never been sick a day in his life. He has never once felt the cold. There is a fire in his chest he cannot explain, and somewhere along the way, he stopped asking why.
He is twenty-two, an orphan who rides a bike across Manhattan delivering packages for tips. He owns two pairs of jeans and a wooden box he has carried since he was five, a box with no latch, no hinge, and no keyhole. It has never opened. He stopped trying years ago.
Then a stranger with silver hair finds him on a fire escape, four minutes ahead of the men sent to kill him. She calls him by a name he has never heard.
The truth is older than he is. Older than the city. Hidden houses of dragonblood heirs. A Council that has been fighting a quiet war for a thousand years. Enemies who have hunted his bloodline for longer than he has been alive, and allies he has no reason to trust. Everything he believed about his body, his past, and the box is about to be wrong.
The box still hasn't opened. But it's getting warmer.
Dragon Blood is book 1 of The Drakonian Wars, an epic fantasy of hidden bloodlines, ancient houses, and a war older than the skyline.
For readers who love the hidden-world ensemble fantasy of Leigh Bardugo and the literary voice of Olivie Blake.
