The Throne of Smoke and Shadow - Book Two of the Dragon Court saga Fire can crown. Fire can chain. Elara must decide what it writes next. Ashfall Keep calls her heir and enemy. The Council counts every breath in ledgers. A dragon watches from the ridge. When Elara forges a door from the broken crown-a door that opens by consent and witness-the city discovers a new law that no noble can own. As siege drums gather and knives move at dusk, Elara must hold a fragile alliance of flame, shadow, and bread: Mara's steel, Tomas's sums, Pera's ink, Lys's seams-and Kaelen, whose scar calls to the dragon's fire as surely as it binds him to her. The Council wants obedience. The warlord wants a throne of smoke. The dragon wants a true sovereign. When the Trial by Flame arrives, one vow will decide a city's future: consent before crown, breath before blood. For readers of political epic fantasy, dragon myth, court intrigue, and slow-burn loyalty that cuts deeper than romance.Epic fantasy with a fierce, strategic heroineDragons, rebellions, court politics, found-family CohortHigh stakes, grounded magic, and a city that learns to breathe