Zephyr is the last air dragon in existence. For a century and a half, she searched for her mate. Finally, she decides to have a true dragon with Avani, the last earth dragon, and the only remaining male dragon. Their son, Ancalagon, is the last of the pure dragons. Ishir is a Bengal tiger shifter. He became friends with Avani before he was captured and placed in an arena. There, he met Tana, the fire dragon. He befriended her, her hybrid daughter, and eventually her Lycan mate. For years, he has been working to rescue shifters while also maintaining a job searching for missing humans. It was during a meeting to discuss taking down a new arena that Ishir met Zephyr and realized she was his mate and that he was mated to a dragon. When Zephyr recognizes Ishir as her mate, she refuses to acknowledge him. After all this time, she finally finds her mate when she’s just had her son, Ancalagon. But a dragon can’t stay away from their mate. In a moment of weakness, she goes to Ishir, spending a night of passion more intense than anything she could have imagined. When she returns home, she finds that her son has been kidnapped and taken by hunters. She begins searching for him, half-crazed to protect him from the people who so willingly kill shifters. When Zephyr finally finds her son, the lead hunter, Oliver, negotiates an agreement with her – she will work for him in exchange for her son’s life. Now, Zephyr will have to go against her very nature, becoming an assassin and killing those she is sworn to protect in order to save her son. Can Ishir find Ancalagon, protect the shifters, and save Zephyr from herself, or will she lose herself to save her son? **This is the third book in the Elemental Dragon series. References will be made to previous events that occurred in those books. It is recommended that you read The Arena and The Dark Protector before reading this book.

Avani is the last earth dragon in the world. He is also the last male dragon and has taken over as protector of the forest. The other three remaining elemental dragons – air, water, and fire – are all females. Their race will die out unless he mates with one of the other three dragons. He snubs the idea of finding a mate, refusing to allow anyone to claim him and therefore control him. The hunters are always searching for supernaturals to force into their Arenas, a modern-day gladiator fighting ring. Now they also capture supernaturals to experiment on, creating a new race of hybrid creatures. Because Avani can shift his emerald-green scales into the black of onyx to blend into the night, those he saves have started to call him The Dark Protector. Merethyl is an elven princess. She and her brother, Yhendorn, are captured by hunters when her family is attacked, and her parents slaughtered. They are held captive and experimented on until they found a way to escape. As they flee, Yhendorn is recaptured sacrificing himself to make sure Merethyl gets away. The hunters chase her, trying to run her down. Avani hears her and flies to her rescue, killing the hunters that are after her. When he realizes that she smells better than anyone he’s ever smelled before, he knows he must get away from her. He cannot allow her to have the total control over him that claiming him would give her. But Merethyl has nowhere else to go and she needs Avani’s help to rescue her brother. Will Avani be able to resist the charms of the elven princess? Or will he fall to her, claimed, and making her his dragonrider?

Tana is a fire dragon, one of only four Elemental Dragons left in the world. For nearly a year, she has battled in the Arena, a supernatural gladiator fighting ring where you must fight to the death. Most die in their first competition. Others survive a couple of weeks. Only a few have survived this longas long as she has. Tana hid her true identity from everyone. If they knew what she was, her fate would be worse than the Arena. Cedric, an Alpha werewolf, believed his pack would quickly rescue him and the other shifters after their capture by hunters. Left to fend for himself in the Arena, Cedric meets Tana. Together, they form a powerful bond and help each other survive. Cedric is convinced that Tana is his fated mate, assuming she's an Alpha werewolf to have survived so long. When they finally get a chance to escape, Cedric claims Tana as his mate, and he markings her in a night of passion. Only when he sinks his teeth into her neck, he feels a power like never before, and he realizes she is no werewolf. Confused and angry at what he considers a betrayal, Cedric leaves, only to return to find her gone the next morning. One night of passion was all it took for Tana to become pregnant. Rejected by her mate, she forges a new life in the city for herself and her child, steering clear of werewolf packs in the hopes of avoiding Cedric's presence. But, unbeknownst to her, he has been hunting for Tana since the night he left her. What will happen when their businesses bring them back together, and he finds that Tana now has a daughter? Will he accept her? Or will he reject her again, leaving their bond forever shattered forever?