Akiem believes he’s a whore and pays for his services and along the way he realises that he feels something for Zane. Zane was a mercenary and bodyguard amongst other things. The story really tricks you, you think you know what’s going on and then your hit with a twist you didn’t see coming, it really kept you on your toes. It does make you hate him a little for all the things he said to Lysander, for making him feel broken, when he is the same. Akiem is so different in this book then he is in Silk and Steel it’s crazy, but he does go through so much in Blood and Ice and you learn a lot about his past and things that happened to him. This is a companion novel to the Silk and Steel trilogy. Zane doesn’t do love and he doesn’t do dragons.īut with the arrival of the Black Prince, everything is about to change. And maybe, just maybe, the terrible, beautiful beast has the key to freeing all the persecuted elves and unlocking Zane’s restless heart.

Because Luceran’s new toy is not like the other dragonkin. Definitely should have killed him.Īnd now, moving on is the farthest thought from Zane’s mind. A dragon with eyes of gold and scales as black as night. But King Luceran has a new toy he parades at court. Working as a bodyguard in Bayston should have been quick coin in his pocket before moving on. Better than the rest of his kin, living under the rule and whims of King Luceran. But he doesn’t do dragons and he definitely doesn’t do love. But some things do change.ĭrifter, mercenary, lover - Zane is all those things.

He’s ready for death, craves it even, like he craves the elf with flame-red hair and a sly smile, the damn elf whose stolen kiss lit Akiem up in ways he didn’t know were possible.Īkiem doesn’t do males and he definitely doesn’t do elves. He knows he’ll die today, tomorrow, whenever Luceran’s executioner brings down his axe, and maybe it’s all he deserves. Broken in all ways, Akiem fled his life as the amethyst prince only to land at the mercy of the beautiful but deadly diamond king, Luceran.Īkiem knows dragons. In the war-torn rubble of the human world, can a rebel elf and a lost dragon prince find love, or will a dark threat tear them and their world apart forever?Ī new land, a new court, a new king, but some things never change.

King of the Dark by Ariana Nash