The Dragon’s Thirteenth Night

A prince with a crown on his head. A beast hidden beneath his skin. A healer brave enough to see the man inside the monster. Prince Caelan has carried a terrible curse for twelve years. Once a year, beneath the thirteenth moon, his body twists into a dragon-powerful, feared, and nearly impossible to control. The palace calls it sickness. The kingdom calls it rumor. But the truth is chained beneath the crown, waiting for the night those chains finally break.
When the dragon escapes and crashes wounded near the village of Briarwood, Elowen, a gifted healer with no patience for royal lies, finds the creature bleeding in the forest. Instead of running, she reaches for the wound. Instead of seeing only a monster, she sees pain, restraint, and a soul fighting not to become what everyone fears. But love cannot be forced. It cannot be used as a key. And the curse will not break for pity, duty, or a pretty lie.
As enemies inside the palace twist fear into power, Caelan and Elowen must uncover the truth behind the dragon curse, the old massacre that created it, and the adviser willing to turn the kingdom against its own prince. With the thirteenth night approaching, Caelan must choose between hiding safely behind the crown or revealing the beast and risking everything. A romantic fantasy of secrets, sacrifice, forbidden love, ancient magic, and the courage to love someone fully-even when the world calls them a monster.