El Príncipe de Los Dragones / The Prince of Dragons: Flame & Arrow

Dublin is many things: a university city, a literary capital, a city of stone bridges and grey skies and pubs with live music spilling onto the cobblestones at midnight. In the world of Flame & Arrow, it is also something else entirely -- a neutral ground where the children of warring magical factions have been sent to keep secrets, make moves, and try not to fall in love with the enemy. Kailey is a fae warrior, trained and loyal, dispatched by her queen with a clear mission: enrol at Trinity College, get close to Aiden -- prince of the dragons -- and extract whatever intelligence will give the fae an advantage in the war that is coming. She is good at her job. She is disciplined. She does not plan to feel anything. Aiden, for his part, arrived at Trinity with his own instructions and his own reasons not to trust a fae. His mother was killed by one. He has not forgotten, and he does not intend to. What neither of them factored in is the effect of sustained proximity, of the moments where the performance slips and something unscripted happens -- a conversation that goes on too long, a night in Temple Bar that neither can entirely explain, the slow and inconvenient realisation that the person you have been told is your enemy is also the person you most want to be honest with. El príncipe de los dragones is the first volume of the Flame & Arrow duology by Sandra Grauer, a German author published by Ravensburger whose fantasy series have built a devoted readership across Europe. Born in 1983 in the Ruhr region, she studied languages and translation in Heidelberg before training in journalism and communications, and now lives in the Ruhr with her husband and son, writing novels -- many of them for young adult readers. The Flame & Arrow world is set in the same urban magical universe as her Clans of London series, in which dragons, fae, witches, and other creatures coexist with contemporary human society across the British Isles and Ireland. The novel combines the most commercially powerful elements of current romantasy fiction -- enemies to lovers, slow burn, dual point of view, forbidden attraction, high-stakes magical conflict -- with a genuinely distinctive setting and a plot that moves with real pace. The second volume, La guerrera de los elfos, is also available from Inlov. Cartoné binding with coloured page edges.