Dragonfall
The Dragon Scales Trilogy #1
The first in an epic fantasy trilogy from Sunday Times bestselling author L.R. Lam.
Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods. But the 'gods' remember, and they do not forgive.
Thief Arcady scrapes a living on the streets of Vatra. Desperate, Arcady steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history. Only Arcady knows the artifact's magic holds the key to a new life among the nobles at court and a chance for revenge.
The spell connects to Everen, the last male dragon foretold to save his kind, dragging him through the Veil. Disguised as a human, Everen soon learns that to regain his true power and form and fulfil his destiny, he only needs to convince one little thief to trust him enough to bond completely—body, mind, and soul—and then kill them.
Yet the closer the two become, the greater the risk both their worlds will shatter.
My more informal description:
A genderfluid thief and a dragon might fall in love despite their best efforts not to.
Publishing Information:
US: DAW (Astra)
UK: Hodderscape (Hodder & Stoughton)
Translations so far: Romanian (out now), Polish (forthcoming), Italian (forthcoming)
Release date: May 2023 (hardback), April 2024 (paperback)
Formats: hardback, e-book, audio, paperback (forthcoming)
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Praise & Accolades
A #4 Sunday Times Bestseller in the UK
Longlisted for the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel
A Locus Magazine Recommended Read 2023
Here there be (sexy) dragons.
― BookPage
Sumptuous epic fantasy.
― Publishers Weekly
What you will find here may be exactly what you love in fantasy: Dragonfall is an intriguing blend of magic, a thief, trickery, and an unexpected dragon.
― Robin Hobb, bestselling author of the Realm of the Elderlings series
In Dragonfall, Lam has forged a fresh and intricate world, a smouldering romance, and a fire-new take on dragons.
― Samantha Shannon, #1 NYT & Sunday Times bestselling author of Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night
Dragonfall is a romance fantasy like you've never read before. A queer norm world with new ways of telling tales, L.R. Lam is breaking boundaries and binaries yet again with a brilliant fantasy book that you won't want to miss.
― Hannah Kaner, #1 Sunday Times Bestselling author of Godkiller
Dragons have never been so sexy. Lam's triumphant return to fantasy strikes the perfect balance between romance, action, high stakes heists, and betrayal, in a richly imagined world that's brimming with magic and heart. You can't help but fall for this book
― Kate Dylan, author of Mindwalker
With a queernorm cast that challenges the roles of gender and sexuality, Dragonfall is a page-turner that keeps you on the edge of your seat with phenomenal worldbuilding and jaw-dropping twists. Leaves you as breathless as flying on dragonback.
― Linden A. Lewis, author of The First Sister
A romance featuring a sexy dragon, stabbing, and kissing ― what’s not to love?
― Aliette de Bodard, award-winning author of A Fire Born in Exile
Lam's Dragonfall is a powerful all-new imagining of dragons and humans and the wild magic burning between them, set in a divided world as brilliantly original as it is convincing. With striking, beautiful prose and characters that will own your heart, this book - and those to follow in the trilogy - are must-reads.
― Julie E. Czerneda, author of the Night’s Edge series
Tight, tense, smouldering, and wonderfully queer.
― Mike Brooks, author of The God-King Chronicles
Set in a unique and wondrous world, Dragonfall is a soaring and fiery love story that will burn or melt your heart. Lam's prose is delicate and gorgeous yet sharp, and will leave readers pining for the next book.
—Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the War Arts Saga
“Dragonfall is a brilliant, beautifully paced page turner of a novel, up there with the best fantasy and one of my favorite reads of the year so far.”
—J.D. Oswald, author of The Ballad of Sir Benfro
Dragonfall is fresh and exciting fantasy, full of treachery, romance and kaleidoscopic world-building. You will gladly lose yourself in L. R. Lam's creation
― Jen Williams, author of The Poison Song and Talonsister
Dragonfall is a soaring good time from start to finish, and has plenty for fantasy fans to love: an intriguing world, forbidden romance, unique magic, and of course, as many dragons as your heart could possibly desire
― Tara Sim, author of The City of Dusk
Signed copies are available through most Edinburgh bookstores, like Transreal Books, Argonaut Books, and Portobello Books.
Emberclaw
The Dragon Scales Trilogy #2
Long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm in the second book in this magical, romantic, epic fantasy trilogy from a Sunday Times bestselling author.
Official cover copy to come.
My more informal description:
Arcady is unleashed on the university and Everen learns what it truly means to be an Emberclaw.
[Purchase links to come.]