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Born of Cinders: A Dragon Rider Academy Romantasy with a Thief Keeper Heroine, Fallen Dragon Prince, Forbidden Magical Bond, Ancient Fire Law, Politic
Paperback
Series: The Burning Academy, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She survived the academy that tried to erase her. Now the law buried beneath it may destroy the crown that created it.
Fyrena Ironwing entered Burning Academy as a thief with a stolen identity.
She emerged as something far more dangerous.
A keeper.
Aurelith, the oldest dragon in Pyrren, has recognised her mark. The First Scale has exposed a forgotten system in which dragons once gave their fire by choice rather than command. And the Ember Tithe beneath the kingdom is beginning to reveal exactly how much was stolen when noble bloodlines rewrote that agreement into law.
Marshal Jorek Wing wants the truth contained.
The ruling houses want Fyrena controlled.
And Havren Drakefall has already sacrificed his command to stand beside the woman his family expected him to stop.
But the deeper Fyrena searches, the worse the history becomes.
A forbidden Cinder Audit can use her keeper mark to reopen dormant district accounts. Hidden archives contain laws the academy claimed were destroyed. Royal children have carried fragments of unborn dragons as symbols of bloodline power. And the mysterious Cinder Statute may prove that the crown never had the right to control dragon fire at all.
For Havren, exposing the truth means more than losing a title.
It means confronting the possibility that his entire inheritance was built on theft.
For Fyrena, freedom has its own price. Every new account her mark opens makes her more powerful, more visible and more valuable to people who would rather use a keeper than recognise one.
And somewhere between trials, secret archives, dragon memory and open rebellion, the bond between Fyrena and Havren becomes impossible to dismiss as temporary.
He is no longer simply protecting her.
He is choosing her.
She is no longer asking whether she can trust a prince.
She is deciding whether the man beneath the title can stand beside her without turning love into another form of control.
When the Ember Tithe begins to fracture and ancient dragons answer laws older than the crown, Fyrena and Havren must decide what they are willing to burn to give Pyrren something it has never truly had.
Choice.
Because destroying a corrupt system is only the beginning.
Keeping an entire kingdom alive without rebuilding the same chains may be far harder.
Born of Cinders is Book Two of The Burning Academy, a continuing-couple dragon romantasy trilogy featuring dragon riders, a thief turned keeper heroine, a fallen dragon prince, forbidden magical bonds, academy trials, ancient laws, hidden dragon history, political rebellion, dangerous attraction and a fight for freedom built on consent rather than command.
Fyrena and Havren's story continues in The Flamebound Diadem, where the broken fire network, the damaged diadem and the threat beyond Pyrren's borders bring the trilogy to its final conflict.
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