Author’s Note
The first version of this story was my first-ever published romance, in fact—several years ago, and with a different title—and I hope you like it! I’ve taken advantage of this revision to do some editing, cleaning and tidying, rewriting some dialogue, and overall polishing, but it’s very much the same story I poured my heart into. It may not be quite the same style as it’d be if I wrote it for the first time today, but I think it has that kind of shining bright-eyed exuberance that first stories have: that sheer excitement of getting to do this, to tell this story, to fall in love with the characters as they find each other and face a dragon and their own fears.
I do have plans for at least one and possibly two more stories in this world—the second one is Lorre’s story, and
