I Stole the Dragon Heart

Raya needs money. Stealing a glowing relic from a shut-down mountain facility should have been simple. Get in. Take the object. Get paid. Except the object is not just a relic. It is the Heartcore, the separated heart of Perjurus, an ancient Dragon Prince sealed in silence for a century. Feared as a weapon. Contained for a reason. When Raya touches the Heartcore and survives, Perjurus wakes. Now her voice is in his head. And somehow, she is the only thing keeping his monster quiet. But Raya was never hired to steal. She was sent to test whether the Heartcore would kill her. She was supposed to be disposable. Instead, she becomes the one person the Heartcore refuses to let go. Now the world wants the Heartcore, and it wants Raya too. Forced to escape the mountain together, Raya and Perjurus disappear into Westvale, a modern city of cameras, crowded streets, hidden enemies, and old magic buried beneath concrete. She talks too much. He barely speaks. She knows how to survive poverty, lies, and powerful people. He knows how to survive chains, silence, and the monster inside him. Bound by something neither of them chose, they must hide in a city that was never as ordinary as it looked, while the bond between them grows stronger, stranger, and harder to resist. Because Raya is the only thing keeping Perjurus from destruction. And Westvale is about to learn what happens when an ancient Dragon Prince wakes in the modern world.

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