Ruby Scales and Blood by Stella Novoa

Dragon Scales and Hearts Saga · Book Three

Ruby Scales and Blood

Some futures are worth fighting for.

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.

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An Excerpt

Emma opened her eyes and saw… skin. She smiled and nuzzled into Hylas’s chest, inhaling his delicious, sunlit-grass-fresh scent. He chuckled and looked at her, his beautiful emerald-green eyes, with his vertical, slitted pupils, fixed on her, filled with so much love. “Good morning little one.” “Good morning, husband.”

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Book Details

Series
Dragon Scales and Hearts Saga
Publisher
Kindle Direct Publishing
Genre
Romantasy
Formats
Ebook · Paperback · Hardcover

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.

The content warnings below are based on The StoryGraph’s content warning categories and severity system. Each warning has been reviewed and classified by the author according to how prominently and explicitly the content appears in the book. Individual readers may experience sensitive content differently.

Please review the detailed content warnings below before reading.

Moods: Dark, Emotional, Tense
Pace: Medium

1. Graphic: Explicit or detailed on-page depiction

  • Blood
  • Death
  • Forced institutionalization
  • Gaslighting
  • Genocide
  • Gore
  • Grief
  • Murder
  • Panic attacks
  • Religious bigotry
  • Sexual content
    • Anal sex
    • Consensual bondage
    • Dominance
    • Double penetration
    • Oral Sex
    • Sexual activity involving one woman and three men; no sexual activity occurs between the male partners.
    • Triple penetration
    • Vaginal sex

2. Moderate: Present on page or meaningfully discussed, but with less explicit detail

  • Abandonment
  • Body horror
  • Body shaming
  • Bullying
  • Classism
  • Confinement
  • Cursing
  • Emotional abuse
  • Fire/Fire injury
  • Infertility
  • Kidnapping
  • Misogyny
  • Physical abuse
  • Sexism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Sexual violence
  • Slavery
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Torture
  • Violence
  • War

3. Minor: Brief mention, reference, or limited description

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Domestic abuse
  • Pregnancy
  • Rape

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