If Ren had her way, she'd never return to her home city of Lüddowen.

After running away as a teenager, she's grown to love her solitary life as a librarian. So when her dragon boss sends her back to acquire an ancient spell book at auction, Ren isn't thrilled. Then again, she would prefer to remain employed.

En route, she is beset by an exuberant, pink-haired stranger named Tilda, whom Ren cannot, for the life of her, get rid of. No matter-this charming woman is the perfect smoke screen lest Ren run into anyone from her past. Never mind that Tilda clearly has her fingers in more pies than she's letting on . . .

But when the book is stolen moments after she places the winning bid, what should have been a simple business trip swells to a hassle of draconic proportions. As she and Tilda navigate the pettiness of rival dragons, blood feuds, and an inconveniently specific curse that puts the von Lugenbach family in danger, Ren comes to realize the true meaning of home-and that hers, against all odds, might not need to be so lonely.