I Taught Him to Court a Mate - He Chose Me

Thea’s Ph.D. research leads her to a lone male dragon, whom she teaches the calls and Flame Dance used in courtship. What begins as fieldwork changes when he performs the ritual directly for her. Then a phone call from her mentor exposes a danger she did not understand: among dragons, courtship can mean taking a mate to a nest and holding them there until egg-laying. Before Thea can decide what his display means, claws break through the roof, and the dragon assumes human form to carry her away. A fever carries her memory back twelve years, to a cable-car fall and the young ancient dragon who saved her. As their bond turns the lesson into a personal reckoning, Thea must confront a courtship she helped set in motion - and the history linking them.