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A reverse training arc

📖: Dragon Hunter by Mase Evans, an NA fantasy romance out now on KU and in print!

If you love:

🔥slow-burn

❤️forbidden romance

⚔️she trains him

🛏️only one bed

💀vengeful MMC

🥀b@d@$$ FMC

🗡️dagger to throat

🐉a sprinkle of dragons and magic

A vengeful prince strikes a deal with the King’s Court to fulfill his dark longing: he’ll get the training he needs to k!ll his enemy from one of their kingdom’s best Dragon Hunters, but he must marry one of three princesses to strengthen his kingdom’s army first 📚

#dragonhunterduology #fantasyromancebooks #romantasybooks #slowburnfantasyromance #reversetropes

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