One land, three curses. One quest for freedom... Cambria is a nation bound by three plagues. The first, the Coraniaid, the deadly wraith women of the mountains, hear everything the breeze touches. Their presence means the Cambrians must live only where the wind doesn''t blow. Only their second guest allows these little settlements to ever connect - the red dragons fly on silent wings, carrying messages. The third visitor to the land is the Scream. A piercing shriek which echoes out every May Day, no woman can bear a child through it, meaning all who want a family must leave on summer pilgrimages. Arianwen does not want a husband. What she wants is freedom. As she leaves the only home she''s known, she doesn''t fear being alone. Until the day she meets the dragon...

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Catrin Cadogan is a writer from Wales. Her writing has spanned YA and adult fiction, and her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. She is a winner of a PEN International New Voices Award and has been named on Hay Festival's 'The Hay 30' list. RED DRAGON SONG is her first romantasy. She lives in South Wales with her family - almost in reach of the wild edge of the sea.

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One land, three curses. One quest for freedom...

She was searching for the sea - but found a war.

Arianwen has a private hunger: to stand on the shore and listen to the music of water she has only ever imagined. When a bone harp falls into her hands, its song draws her out of the forest she calls home and straight into danger. Dragons bleed in the sky. Lightning hunts the living. Wraiths wait in the wind to steal the language and life of anyone brave or foolish enough to speak in their hearing. Hers is a land riven by ancient plagues and now Ari must face them head on.

But she has never feared being alone. Until the day she meets the dragon - and its dangerous companion, Edern. He wants the storms broken - and will risk everything to do it. Ari wants only to reach the wild edge of the land. Between them, a fierce, reluctant respect ignites. Between them also, a choice: head to the sea Ari knows has answers she needs, or stand and fight for what would be lost if the skies fall.

Bold, mythic and elemental, Red Dragon Song is an epic journey of bone-deep music, binding loyalties and heartbreaking bargains. It asks whether love is balm or curse to a restless soul - and whether words in the wind can change everything. As Ari steps out of the shadows, who will she become when the sky finally answers her song?