Dragon Scales and Hearts Saga · Book Three
Ruby Scales and Blood
Coming October 2026.
Emma has finally settled in her new home. Her family has grown.
The reverence of The Old Gods slowly returning to what it once was, over a thousand years ago.
Then the villages' peace is shattered in a devastating and unexpected attack.
Emma and her family are summoned to the Kingdom's capital, Thornminster.
Determined to protect her people from further retaliation, she travels with her husbands through a desolated Kingdom, famine and hopelessness all around.
Love is tested against guilt, rage, and terrifying power.
Her husbands are forced to face their past and present choices.
Emma is forced to confront her own past in ways she was not expecting. Finding answers to nagging questions she had for years, not liking the answers at all.
Some families are worth fighting for.
Some bonds are forged in love.
Ruby Scales and Blood is the third book, the final installment of Emma’s story in the Dragon Scales and Hearts Saga, a high-stakes, character-driven romantasy trilogy perfect for fans of why-choose romance with no MM, possessive dragon shifters and a heroine who transforms love into power.
Coming October 2026.
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Content Warnings
Ruby Scales and Blood 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 adult 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, mass casualties, religious indoctrination, depression, trauma responses and strong language.
Trigger / Content Warnings
- Character Death
- Consensual Bondage
- Gore
- Graphic Depression
- Graphic Violence
- Highly Explicit Sexual Content
- Magical Coercion
- Mass Casualties / Mass Murder
- Physical Violence
- Political Corruption
- Pregnancy & Childbirth
- Religious Indoctrination / Religious Persecution
- Reproductive Coercion / Forced-Breeding Themes
- Sexual Trauma
- Strong Language
- Suicidal Ideation
- Threat of Sexual Assault by Villainous Characters
- References to Prior Sexual Assault
- War / Civilian Death
Detailed Content Guide
Reader Discretion Advised
Although the central romantic relationship is loving and consensual, the surrounding story contains dark themes mass casualties, trauma, sexual violence, coercion, and reproductive coercion. Please read with care.
Why Choose / Reverse Harem Relationship — No MM Romance or Sexual Activity
The central relationship is an established 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.
Sexual Trauma & Coercion
The book contains references to previous sexual assault and sexual trauma, threats of sexual assault by villainous characters, reproductive coercion, forced-breeding themes, threats of forced marriage and pregnancy, sexual exploitation in a male character's backstory, and magical coercion. Sexual assault is not committed by the MMCs and does not occur between the central romantic partners.
Violence & Death
Graphic violence, gore, blood, severe injuries, war, creature attacks, supporting-character deaths, mass casualties, mass murder, destruction of homes and settlements, threats of execution, and grief following violent loss.
Trauma & Mental Health
Trauma responses, depression, suicidal ideation, references to a previous suicide attempt, panic, grief, survivor guilt, shame, emotional breakdowns, and self-sacrificial thoughts.
Religion, Politics & Oppression
Religious indoctrination, religious persecution, forced religious conformity, political corruption, authoritarian rule, misogyny, reproductive control, poverty, starvation, famine, class inequality, and abuse of religious and political authority.
Pregnancy & Family
Infertility and fertility trauma, unexpected pregnancy, pregnancy anxiety, childbirth, labor pain, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, parental neglect, hidden parentage, and death of a mother in childbirth.