Ashbound Riders

Trial of Fire

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Ashbound Riders

By: Sara King

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ASHBOUND RIDERS: TRIAL OF FIRE

Book One of The Ashbound Riders

They told her the trials would break her.

They never imagined what would answer back.

High above the empire, carved into a volcanic mountain, stands Ashspire Academy — a brutal training ground where dragon riders are forged through fire, obedience, and loss. Cadets are not chosen for greatness. They are selected to see who survives.

Most do not.

Kaelith Vire enters Ashspire with nothing but a slum-born resilience and a refusal to surrender. She has no noble blood, no political protection, and no reason to be noticed. To the empire, she is expendable — another body offered to the flames.

But endurance has a way of drawing attention.

As Kaelith endures lethal trials, ruthless instructors, and rival cadets desperate to survive at any cost, she begins to uncover the truth behind dragon bonding — and the lies the empire uses to control it. Dragons are not loyal beasts. Bonds are not gentle gifts. And power is never free.

When Kaelith forms a forbidden bond with an ash-class dragon, a creature believed too volatile to exist, she becomes something far more dangerous than a successful cadet.

She becomes uncontrollable.

Now the academy must decide whether to shape her…

or destroy her.

Caught between political pressure, dangerous alliances, and a slow-burning attraction that threatens to compromise everything, Kaelith is forced to make a choice: submit to the system that created her — or risk burning it down from the inside.

Because ash does not submit.

And once fire chooses its rider, nothing stays contained.

What readers will experience in Trial of Fire

• Dragon bonding with real emotional and physical consequences

• A fierce, survival-driven female protagonist

• Deadly academy trials and ruthless training systems

• Slow-burn romantic tension under constant threat

• Found family formed through shared survival

• Dark fantasy atmosphere with high emotional stakes

• Power, loyalty, and desire tested against control

This is a romantasy built on endurance, restraint, and dangerous connection — where attraction grows under pressure and every bond comes at a cost.

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