by Hazel Beck
Part of Witchlore, book 4
First published 2025
Georgie Pendell has always done what the Riverwood Coven needed. She accepted the role of Historian, smiled through the politics, and kept her head down. Then her boyfriend duped her and walked, and she decided love was a story people told themselves. She was wrong. Reading aloud from an enchanted storybook, Georgie accidentally frees a dragon shifter from centuries of captivity. He fixes his fiery golden gaze on her and acts like she already belongs to him. Georgie feels the pull too, stronger than anything she thought herself capable of. But the dragon carries a secret buried deep in the ancient past, and the defeated Joywood Coven is still scheming to wreck the new witching order. Georgie's coven must prove it deserves to lead. To do that, they need something the Joywood fears, something only a Historian and an ancient dragon together can locate. The search will force Georgie to use every skill her new role demands, and to decide whether the connection she shares with her dragon is real enough to trust.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance
Vibes: emotional, enchanting, fast-paced, magical, romantic, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fated-mates, found-family, slow-burn-romance
Setting: Riverwood Coven, Joywood Coven
368 pages · Paperback · Graydon House