After his father’s disappearance with no dragon heir, Valen became the youngest in history to complete the Trials and become a dragon shifter in order to secure his father’s throne. All new shifters can sense their true mates at the Bonding, which only occurs every quarter-century, immediately after they shift for the first time. But newly crowned King Valen does not. After 200 years, he finally meets his mate but she is not what he expected. What happens when the king has to wait even longer for what he most desires? Lyanna is a human in a kingdom dominated by Caelorians, a race that is stronger and lives longer than humans, and shifters, men who have completed a mysterious test called the Trials to prove themselves worthy of a spirit companion. What will she do when she learns that there is more to her ancestry than meets the eye?