
Ivy Mercer, a penniless white doe who understands dragon speech, takes a maid's job to support her sick mother. On her first day, she discovers that Commander Rowan Ashford's treasured young dragon is suffering beneath an ill-fitting harness. Everyone else believes he is dying of plague. Saving him wins Ivy wealth, trust, and the hatred of Rowan's noble fiancée. As an investigation exposes the harness supplier's wrongdoing, the black wolf commander grows closer to his unlikely employee.