Mi-ra is the@ long-lost biologi+cal`\ da?/ughte !$r of the Hale family- \ of Ashen City. Yet aft,e\.#r #)*return+,ing home,$ +?;`s_
he repeatedly giv :es *#way to the=ir ado$pted: ?:daughter!+,^  Lia—surren dering her_ room,#/ her pl,*][ac \e as a drago,#n r%ider, and /` even half of her =m$other’s
`inheritance`+ .,/]
Befor#!e) .the wedding, ]D,raegot+*.h—$(the bonded dr!a-/gon Gar!r^ick personal^,ly t$,:amed and the /\^onl,y=]. keepsake Mi/ra]# ha`s left from ,]her mother—is t!#raine(d )to obey Lia alo)#n %;e and nearly kill/\!]s Mira. Real [$iz?%@ing ^that Ga,rrick,_.] her f%i!(ancé of +eight yea%rs, has alway_#s  seen her as n!!^;othin+!/g mor=^`e than a g$ u==.llib
(\le wo!man, M/# \ira walks barefoot ac_/ross burn.`ing coals, bre(=ak]s  off their engag[]eme.nt, and t  _urns to m -arry Th eron, the Lor$#d= of*$ -;^the North, wh+[/o has waited ei=%ght years for. he
\r_.
When Garrick,% -Lia,[[ and @!/Mira’s brother Ca^,el ^)_arr#%ive at the magnificen`+ t Northe/,rn  w@edd ing a/` nd discover that Mi.ra is ##,*the bri(]%de, +(th$ey are over?w_;he;
%l[med with regret—bu;\$t i /t is )# already too lat$\e. I
n the end_`#, Mi*,r+:a is surro-`
unded by th*e love she des@*(e!rves, ]and her mother’s d#ragon final!:l?[y= re*^tur ns t+@o her si
de.