Please Don’t Feed the Dragons

TRIGGER WARNING: Readers who are unwilling to look beyond their own assumptions may find this work uncomfortable, as it asks them to inhabit the identity and inner world of someone whose hardships they may never have had to consider.Jayla Gambon’s life is already on fire—and not in the cool, “ride a dragon to school” kind of way. Her mom’s obsessed with scratch-offs and impossible dreams, she’s broke, invisible at school, and totally over the rich kids who treat dragons like designer handbags.Then one of them—Bronan freakin’ Chaldee, heir to the biggest dragon family in Chicago—actually talks to her. One reckless date later, Jayla’s crash-landed into a world of ancient bloodlines, political secrets, and dragons with opinions. Big, scaly, world-ending opinions.Now she’s caught between the humans who exploit dragons and the dragons who might be a lot smarter (and angrier) than anyone realized.And when the line between myth and memory blurs, Jayla has to decide what kind of person she wants to be—the kind who obeys the rules…or the kind who burns them.Smart, biting, and wildly original, Please Don’t Feed the Dragons is a coming-of-age fantasy about class, power, and what happens when the monsters we serve finally bite back.