And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

by Kiersten White

A dragon burned everything around herself until it was purified in ash.

I will not let him take any more of my freedom. I cannot accept that a political marriage is my fate. It would mean I was set aside and forgotten, and I would rather die than be forgotten.”

“When you have something someone else wants, there is always an element of power.”

“I stopped knowing what to fight against.”

Love was a plague.

Her spine was steel. Her heart was armor. Her eyes were fire.

“Not Dragwlya,” she said. “Lada Dracul. I am no longer the daughter of the dragon.” She lifted her chin, sights set on the horizon. “I am the dragon.”