The Teacup Dragon Rescue Sanctuary

After a clash with the Academy, apothecary Portia Starling expects her family's notorious reputation to make her the scapegoat, so she reluctantly returns to Starling Island—somewhere she has not considered home in years—to wait for news of her future.

Noah Turner has long wanted to travel north and study the great dragons of Elanholm, but as a vet with no magic he has no way to fund that research.

A chance to help at Iris Starling's teacup dragon sanctuary is one he cannot refuse; if he proves himself there, his dream may finally come within reach.

Portia and Noah dislike each other at once: he takes her for an entitled Academy poser collecting dragons as a trend, and she finds him bossy and overbearing.

With the lives of the sickly rescue dragons at stake, they will have to look past that hostility if those fragile creatures are going to survive.