The Sky We Bleed For

Conscripted into a brutal aerie-college where one in three cadets die before bonding a dragon, cartographer's daughter Liora Quintrell expects to survive on cunning alone—until a scarred, feral beast no rider has ever lived through chooses her. Marked as a curiosity by the cold, commanding wingleader Killian Blackthorn, Liora discovers a hunger she's never named: the freedom of surrender. But the Spire hides a conspiracy branded into dragonflesh, and the man she's learning to trust may be its instrument.