Dragons are amongst the most feared creatures in the paranormal world, nigh unbeatable and barely controllable. Every year, countless men and women with dragon potential are kidnapped and changed, their former lives lost forever. Blaze has been a pit fighter all his life, and it is a life he hates. The only thing that keeps him going is his dragon, Erie. Though pit rules say it's a bad idea to get too close to the dragons, Blaze has never been able to help it.

Ken and his dragon Nevada were once victims of the pits, sold by their parents and forced into a brutal life of win or die. Though they were rescued from that life, it has left scars, and despite the man who adopted them it still feels like they're always looking for a place to call home—assuming they survive their attempts to destroy the pits, and the Syndicates who run them.

Rafael doesn't expect to survive much longer. He's already lost the woman he loved, he doesn't dare admit the love he feels for the dragon who constantly begs to remain at his side, and his brother is finding more and more excuses to beat him. Then he's ordered to investigate a strange, stubborn dragon who seems to break all the rules, a dragon that swiftly draws the attention of the other Syndicates…