Ivy Sinclair · Dragon Shifter Romance · Complete Series
Ember
SeedThe burn is slow. The mountain knows before either of them does.
"An Appalachian dragon shifter romance built on forced proximity, reluctant partnership, and the slow recognition that the person you needed for the situation might be the person you needed for everything else too."
The World
Deep in the Appalachian mountains, the old dragon clans have kept their territories for generations. The Roan clan controls the high distillery land. The Clinch clan controls what lies beneath Clinch Mountain — and what lies beneath has started to matter in ways neither clan anticipated.
The series follows Branna Roan and Lorcan Clinch from the day of their arranged alliance through four books of operational partnership, external complications, and the painstaking honesty required to name what they are actually building. The romance is earned across the full arc. So is the payoff.
The arrangement was never her choice. What she builds from it is.
Reading Order
The Books
The Arrangement
Branna Roan has been preparing to lead Clan Roan her entire life. She knows the land, the distillery, the mountain. She knows the cost of what the clan needs from her and she has never, not once, resented it in a way she couldn't manage. Then Lorcan Clinch arrives with two bags and a carefully neutral expression, and the arrangement becomes real. He isn't what she expected — quieter, more precise, and considerably more perceptive than the file on him suggested. They build a working relationship out of necessity and proximity. They do not talk about what else they are building.
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Six months in, Branna and Lorcan have built something that works: a shared operation, a mutual understanding, a way of being in the same spaces that has stopped requiring management. Then the outside world arrives at the Roan estate. Branna has Emeric. Lorcan has Cora. Both relationships are real. Both relationships are also, in the specific way of things that are true and insufficient simultaneously, not the thing. The burn gets harder to manage.
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The Cost
Some things have a price. Some prices are worth paying. The difficulty is that you don't always know which is which until you're already committed. The threat under Clinch Mountain has a shape now. Cora Vass is sitting on a branch mapping report that is going to change everything when it files. And Lorcan Clinch is standing at an access road making the kind of ask that costs something to make, because the honest thing and the easy thing stopped being the same thing approximately four months ago. The engine book. The reckoning.
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High Ground
Ten months. A physician's letter. A thing that has been named, finally, in the dark kitchen at midnight. And now the work of doing something with the naming. Branna chose this — not because the arrangement required it, not because the bloodline needed it. Because she looked at the full shape of what she had built with Lorcan Clinch over ten months and made the choice that was entirely hers. The conclusion to the Ember Seed series. The high meadow in September. Two people who took the long way around and found that the long way was the right way.
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