She thinks: Did I summon the blue fire in my blood? Did my desire bring that dragon into our house when I was a child? Could it be a choice that I made, without even realizing—a secret choice in my heart? Yeva always felt she’d had no control over the course of her life, dragged by the tides of destiny into the Empire and bound to duty before she could catch a breath. But what if she did? What if she’d turned her back on her mother and her mother’s people to follow her father’s path?
