Dragon Scales and Hearts Saga · Book Two
Emerald Scales and Sweat
Some homes are worth fighting for. Some bonds are forged in blood.
In a world that hunts the followers of The Old Gods, Emma has everything to lose.
Months after escaping the life that drove her from a cliff’s edge, Emma has found sanctuary. As a Priestess, she protects three hidden villages and shares a devoted marriage with her dragon husbands: gentle, cerulean-eyed Kryos and fierce, emerald-eyed Hylas.
But when armed knights arrive searching for the lost Lockwood daughter, Emma refuses to let her past endanger the family she has chosen. With her husbands beside her, she gives them what they came for.
Herself.
Imprisoned and coveted for her growing power, Emma must survive her captors and become strong enough to find her way home.
Some homes are worth fighting for.
Some bonds are forged in blood.
Emerald Scales and Sweat is the second book in the Dragon Scales and Hearts Saga, a high-heat, character-driven romantasy trilogy perfect for fans of why-choose romance with no MM, possessive dragon shifters and a heroine who transforms survival into power.
Coming to Kindle Unlimited on August 27th, 2026.
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An Excerpt
Emma walked slowly through the night. Half the moon shone in the sky, and the children sang from the edges of the crops, as she called to the night dew, drawing its small droplets of water over them.
She talked to the earth, and it answered back to her, warm and welcoming, bringing its life source to the crops nurturing them.
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Book Details
Content Warnings
Emerald Scales and Sweat contains mature and potentially triggering content, including graphic violence, highly explicit sexual scenes, and themes of trauma and abuse. This book is intended strictly for readers aged 18 and older. Please review the detailed content warnings below before reading.
This dark romantasy contains an established Why Choose relationship with highly explicit sexual content, including consensual dominance, restraint, and anal sex. There is no MM sexual activity or romance.
Content includes gore, graphic violence, murder, physical assault, kidnapping, imprisonment, torture, religious indoctrination, depression, trauma responses, suicidal ideation, and strong language.
The story also contains on-page sexual assault, attempted rape, sexual humiliation, and reproductive coercion committed by villainous side characters, not by the MMCs. References to prior sexual betrayal, abuse, and trauma are included throughout.
Detailed Content Guide
Reader Discretion Advised
Although the central romantic relationship is loving and consensual, the surrounding story contains dark themes involving captivity, trauma, sexual violence, coercion, and loss of bodily autonomy. Please read with care.
Why Choose / Reverse Harem Relationship — No MM Romance or Sexual Activity
The central relationship is an established male–female–male marriage involving one woman and multiple male partners. Males are romantically and sexually involved with the heroine, but they are not romantically or sexually involved with each other.
Highly Explicit Sexual Content
The book contains frequent, highly descriptive sexual scenes between consenting adults. Content includes oral sex, anal sex, simultaneous penetration, dominant sexual language, possessive behavior within a consensual relationship, edging, and other explicit acts.
Consensual Bondage and Restraint
Some consensual intimate scenes include magical or physical restraint, surrender of control, commands, and dominant behavior. These acts occur within the established central relationship.
Gore
The story includes graphic descriptions of blood, severe injuries, open wounds, burns, mutilation, and violent deaths.
Graphic Violence
Characters experience and inflict severe violence, including magical attacks, beatings, stabbing, burning, battlefield injuries, and attacks involving dragons and weapons.
Physical Assault
The heroine and other characters are struck, kicked, restrained, dragged, injured, or otherwise physically attacked.
Murder and Death
Characters are deliberately killed. Some deaths occur on-page and may be described graphically. The story also discusses deaths committed under magical coercion.
Kidnapping and Abduction
The heroine is forcibly taken from her husbands and transported to a hostile location against her will.
Imprisonment and Forced Restraint
The heroine is confined inside a castle cell, shackled to a wall, deprived of freedom, and left in physically painful positions for extended periods.
Torture and Cruel Captivity Conditions
Captivity includes prolonged restraint, physical pain, isolation, exposure to cold, spoiled food, inadequate sanitation, threats, and deliberate degradation.
Sexual Assault — Not Committed by the MMCs
The book contains an on-page sexual assault committed by a villainous side character. This includes forced sexual touching and forced penetration with fingers. The assault is interrupted before penile penetration occurs. The central male protagonists do not sexually assault the heroine.
Attempted Rape
A villain attempts to rape and forcibly impregnate the heroine. The attempted rape is interrupted before completion.
Sexual Humiliation and Degradation
The sexual-assault sequence includes degrading language, forced exposure, bodily humiliation, and deliberate attempts to make the heroine feel powerless and ashamed.
Forced Urination
During the assault sequence, a villain deliberately urinates on the heroine as an act of humiliation and abuse.
Threats of Sexual Violence
The heroine is threatened with rape, forced impregnation, and repeated sexual access by men acting under the antagonist’s authority.
Reproductive Coercion
The antagonist treats the heroine as a potential source of magically powerful children and attempts to control who impregnates her. Forced breeding and the creation of children without the heroine’s consent are discussed and threatened.
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
The story discusses both current and historical sexual exploitation. A male character reveals that he was repeatedly forced through magical compulsion to perform sexual acts against his will.
Sexual Betrayal and Prior Trauma
The heroine continues processing a past relationship in which she was deceived into sexual intimacy by a man who falsely promised love and marriage before abandoning her.
Trauma Responses
Characters experience panic, dissociation, trembling, hypervigilance, intrusive memories, shame, fear of touch, bodily reactions to reminders of abuse, and difficulty processing traumatic events.
Depression
The story contains discussion and depiction of severe depression, hopelessness, emotional despair, and the long-term effects of abuse and isolation.
Suicidal Ideation and Prior Suicide Attempt
The heroine remembers and discusses a previous suicide attempt involving jumping from a cliff. During a later life-threatening fall, she briefly believes she is about to die and reflects on the life she experienced after surviving her earlier attempt.
Religious Indoctrination
The heroine was raised within a controlling religious institution that uses shame, fear, purity expectations, and restrictions on women to maintain authority. The story explores the continuing psychological effects of that indoctrination.
Spiritual and Magical Coercion
Magical bonds can be used to compel characters to act against their will. The story includes forced obedience, loss of bodily autonomy, and a character being magically commanded to commit violence and sexual acts.
Strong Language
The book contains frequent strong language, sexual language, insults, and explicit threats.
Animal Injury
A horse suffers a severely broken leg but is magically healed. Horses are also subjected to exhaustion and inadequate care during a prolonged journey.
Abuse of Power
Religious leaders, noble families, soldiers, and magically powerful individuals use their positions to control, exploit, imprison, and harm others.
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