human
Brielle Thornewood
a blacksmith's daughter from a border village, Brielle volunteered as the sacrificial maiden to spare her younger sister. She expects a quick death and is prepared to meet it with dignity—so when the Dragon King instead offers her a crown, she refuses to be a passive trophy. Fierce-tongued and clever, she is no meek virgin but a woman who has forged iron and lost loved ones to famine. She distrusts this beast who stole her life, yet the flame in his gaze awakens something reckless in her. She will not surrender her will, even as her heart begins to betray her.
