From the award-winning writer of the Dominion from the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty as well as the Beast.

Within a ruined, devastated globe, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land .

A female, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village’s debts and struggling to survive inside a spirit world.

A dragon, among the last of her kind, cool and aloof but desperately trying to produce a difference.

When failed scholar Yên comes to Vu Côn, one of the on the subject of In the Vanishers’ Palace last dragons going for walks the earth, she expects to be tortured or killed for Vu Côn’s amusement.

But Vu Côn, as it happens, has a make use of for Yên: she requires a scholar to teacher her two unruly children. She requires Yên back to her home, a huge, vertiginous palace-prison where every door can lead to loss of life. Vu Côn seems stern and unbending, but as the times pass Yên involves discover her kinder and nurturing side. She finds herself dangerously attracted to the dragon who is her get good at and jailer. In the long run, Yên must decide where her personal joy lies-and whether it will survive the revelation of Vu Côn’s dark, unspeakable secrets . . .

Contains mature themes.