For as long as she can remember, Linaria's cherished connection to the village princess has meant everything to her—until her friend is chosen as the new bride of the terrifyingly powerful dragon of the forest. Heartbroken and terrified by the stories they'd grown up with, Linaria casts her entire life away to go in the princess's stead. With everything she knows left behind her, Linaria enters the other half of the fantastical and dangerous world she'd never known before to live among the creatures of an ancient time long since lost to the mundane people—and swiftly realizes she had no idea what she was really getting into.