Thirty-year-old Jet Darrow’s life takes a mythical turn when her typical Boulder hike ends with her locked in a life-bond with a pretentious bitch of a dragon neither wants. The Veil has lifted, revealing the dying Mythic World among us. Desperate to return to reality, Jet reaches for the one relationship that's never let her down: her romantasy novels and the bond-breaking spells they might contain. But they were never an escape. They'd been preparing her for war.

Jet is pulled to the front lines of a conflict where the sky, earth, and sea have united against a monster-summoning hunter known as Venator, who threatens them all. His one weakness? The chaotic darkness beneath Jet’s skin that looks a lot like her self-destructive tendencies. 

Fortunately, there’s someone who could tame those unruly shadows. Unfortunately, Rift Atlas, the light-wielding commander of the vengeful earth nation (and walking reminder of why dangerous, brooding men belong in books), has every reason to want her dragon dead — and thanks to her new bond, Jet as well.

As her shadows grow more deadly and harder to control, Jet realizes Venator isn’t the only threat, and that surviving this war means becoming the heroine she's only ever read about. She reaches for the one weapon she has left: the enemies-to-lovers trope she insists she’s immune to. But when the ruthless commander starts to feel like the only thing in this mythical world that’s real, a war won’t be the only thing she could lose. It’s herself.