The Dragon and the Rose

"Dragon and Rose Princess Elaina Vale, the frail third daughter of the border kingdom, discovers the Holy Church has been sacrificing royal daughters for centuries under the guise of divine purification. She walks willingly to the altar, not as a lamb, but as a hunter—using her dormant dragon blood to awaken Aurelius, the East Sea Dragon Lord sealed beneath the ice for a thousand years. Forging a blood pact, she helps him break nine sacred silver seals while he protects her from the Church's manhunt. What begins as mutual use slowly blooms into something deeper: the cold, sharp-tongued dragon finds himself guarding her with his heart-scale, while the princess who trusted no one learns to stand beside another. When ancient memories resurface and betrayal threatens to tear them apart, Elaina must uncover the thousand-year truth hidden in her bloodline—and together, they face the immortal High Priest who has waited a millennium to steal dragon power and ascend as a god."