When he spies the dragons soaring in the air above near the castle, his heart heats up.

The author, though, also lets us in, immediately, into a secret. Instead we get the realistic complicated relationship of a father and son trying to love each other giving the current state of affairs (albeit directly due to the father’s actions). Trevor doesn’t make a villain out of him where others would have. Bitter perhaps, but he loves his father, while understanding exactly who he is, extreme faults and all. He’s run through the considerable estate Jasen’s mother had left him and his father, their castle or mansion, or whatever is left is in a sad state of disrepair, and the what money is left is sliding fast through his father’s fingers. Jasen’s reprobate of a father is a drunk, a gambler, and a total loss when it comes to handling money. Sera Trevor let me know right at the start I was in splendid “narrative” hands when, for starters, it came to the father/son dynamics. A King looking for a new consort, dragons who play a major element, and a young man throwing his fate to the winds because of the misdeeds of his father. It has all the elements guaranteed to pull me in. Well, as someone who loves all things dragons, Consorting with Dragonsby Sera Trevor was a novel I couldn’t wait to start into. After all, true love always wins in fairy tales! This sweet and funny Cinderfella romance is complete at ~85000 words and ends in a solid HEA. Scheming factions at Court conspire to keep him from Rilvor’s side, and now Jasen has to decide if the chance at true love with Rilvor is worth the burden of being the husband of a king. Becoming royalty wasn’t something Jasen either expected or wanted, but he can’t control his growing feelings for kind and handsome king. To the shock of everyone, he ends up attracting the attention of King Rilvor himself, and the dragons who control the magic in the land. Lord Jasen of Grumhul, an impoverished young nobleman, has come to the Draelands to find a rich husband to help pay his father’s debts. At last, the novel-length expansion of the award-winning novella!

Consorting With Dragons by Sera Trevor