What You Created

Kassidy Tidewing has spent her entire life believing she is ordinary-a foster child with no family, no inheritance, and no explanation for the dreams that leave her waking with saltwater on her tongue.

On her twenty-ninth birthday, everything changes.

A nightmare of fire reveals a woman wearing Kassidy's emerald pendant. Strange scales appear on her skin. Shadows begin moving with purpose. And a guarded stranger named Ryker arrives with a warning: the ancient courts are waking, and something has finally found her.

Forced to flee with her closest friends, Kassidy is taken to Valdris, an academy built upon the ruins of a forgotten kingdom. There, she discovers that dragons are not legends, bloodlines can be erased, and the pendant she has carried since childhood may be the key to a throne buried beneath the sea.

But Valdris is filled with secrets. Trust is dangerous. Power always demands a price. And Ryker-the infuriating protector who seems to know far more about Kassidy than he will admit-may be connected to the very history she was never meant to remember.

As ancient magic stirs and the Shadow Court begins hunting the lost heirs, Kassidy must decide whether to keep running from the truth or become the woman destiny created her to be.

Because she was never meant to stay hidden.

She was created for something greater.

And the crown was only the beginning.

What You Created is the first book in the Ashen Crown Series-a dark fantasy romance filled with dragons, hidden bloodlines, forbidden truths, found family, dangerous magic, and a destiny that refuses to remain buried.