Wyvern

Elsbeth Weaver is a gifted fiddler who once turned away from the man she loved so she could look after her sick grandfather. Eight years on, her grandfather is about to be lynched, and the only way to save him is to play for the wyvern that has spent the summer terrorizing their village. At the haunted cliffs of Maldoza she finds herself facing the creature, unsure whether to be frightened or drawn to it. Something about the beast stirs memories of her long-lost lover, and not only because they share a name.

Alaric never stopped loving the woman he left behind in a dusty village nearly ten years earlier. When he finds her on the cliffs, wearing old dragon armor and playing her fiddle with raw, aching feeling, he is overjoyed to see her again.

Elsbeth never realized that the man she gave herself to was, in truth, only an illusion created for the wyvern. Alaric has to persuade her that the beast's heart is every bit as devoted as the man's, and that another separation would not last a decade.