In the Vanishers' Palace

When failed scholar Yãen is sold to Vu Cãon, one of the last dragons walking the earth, she expects to be tortured or killed for Vu Cãon's amusement. But Vu Cãon, it turns out, has a use for Yãen: she needs a scholar to tutor her two unruly children. She takes Yãen back to her home, a vast, vertiginous palace-prison where every door can lead to death. Vu Cãon seems stern and unbending, but as the days pass Yãen comes to see her kinder and caring side. She finds herself dangerously attracted to the dragon who is her master and jailer. In the end, Yãen will have to decide where her own happiness lies--and whether it will survive the revelation of Vu Cãon's dark, unspeakable secrets ... --Publisher website.