The Girl Chosen by the Dead Dragon God

Kaelis Veyne was born with nothing. No noble blood. No magic rank. No future beyond the frozen border village that barely remembers her name. For eighteen years, she has lived as the forgotten girl—until the night bone beasts descend from the dark and slaughter her home. In the moment between life and death, the silver scar over her heart awakens. Black dragon fire erupts from her hands. And a voice older than kingdoms whispers from within her soul. > I remember you. Marked by Nytharion, the last Dead Dragon God, Kaelis is forced into the continent’s most feared magic institution: Obsidian Spire Academy, a legendary school built atop a buried dragon graveyard. There, she is cast into Ashen Hall, the sealed division meant for extinct magic users, where every lesson uncovers a truth the empire tried to erase: modern dragons are not choosing riders. They are being enslaved. Each time Kaelis uses her forbidden Ash Memory magic, another ancient dragon tomb begins to awaken. The academy wants to control her. The royal bloodlines want to weaponize her. And in the ruins of her dreams, an enemy prince with storm-gray eyes can hear the same dragon god whispering her name. As forgotten gods stir beneath the world and a thousand-year betrayal begins to unravel, Kaelis must decide what she is becoming: the girl who will restore the Dragon Pantheon… or the vessel that will end what remains of it.