Diana DeRicci

Lord Jayce Morrow and his stalwart mage friends all feel the impending weight of the future bearing down on them. After successfully breathing life back into the keep through sweat and goodwill, the harder winter months are a perfect opportunity for everyone to catch their breaths, train, and finetune plans. Successful attacks against the sluggish army have freed several dragons, presenting new and surprising bonds with their arrivals.
As each facet of their world comes together, humans, mages, skin shifters, and dragons are joining their support with Lord Morrow and his vision for Kielbos. Then their fragile stability is shaken when someone close to the clan goes missing. Captured in his tiger shifted form, Kygo Arin is to be sold to the highest bidder for ill-gains and blood sport. Forced to wear a magically spelled collar ruthlessly locked around his neck, blocking his ability to shift.
And he's not the only one. Lord Oberion is on a mission to uncover the leader of the skin shifter poachers and destroy them. After the loss of his husband years before, his one goal is to decimate his murderers. Entering the secretive world of skin shifter poachers and magical slavers undercover, old scars will bleed as he delves into the sordid underworld to find answers. Becoming entangled in a war he knew next to nothing about, he will once again face losing it all.
When plans go awry and he becomes caught in a web of his own making, he will have to rely on his newly found allies and friends to see his plans succeed. Two men caught in a spiral of depravity, seeking answers they both need. What will they risk to protect those they love?