Dragon Chains by Becca Brayden

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dangerous. Tortured. Desperate. King Ryker of the Draquonir will make one last sacrifice to save his people and his kingdom before he loses control of the raging beast inside him. Dragon kind are dwindling, no longer able to hunt for their true mates in this contemporary, high-tech world.

Ryker must do something no dragon has ever done before; have a child with a human woman he has no desire to touch, a woman his dragon refuses to take as a mate. Arrangements have been made. A queen chosen. A loveless, chaste marriage of convenience. No passion. No dragonfire. Nothing but contracts and medical procedures to sire an heir. This is the only way his race will survive.

Katy Toure is tired of cleaning up her identical twin’s messes, but when her sister calls in a panic, unable to get to an important business meeting worth millions of dollars, Katy just can’t say no. All Katy has to do is walk out of her dead-end job, grab her sister’s passport, fly to Italy, pretend to be her sister for a few days, sign some contracts and take the vacation she’s always dreamed about.

No one will know she’s an imposter. No one ever knows.

But Katy has never tried to fool a dragon who scents his mate…

Dragon Chains

”My life is a mess”

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚💜🖤
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌎🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😠🙃😍😘🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Katy – She worked for a radio station and wasn’t too fond of her job.
Katy has an identical twin sister Emily, who is always getting in over her head and Katy is always the one stuck getting her out of things. She promised herself she wouldn’t do it again. However, when her sister calls her complaining that she can’t make it to an important meeting that will be worth a bunch of money to her and their family, Katy reluctantly agrees to go in her place.

The Hero: Ryker – he is a billionaire and King of the Draquonir, an ancient race of dragon shifters. He couldn’t find a woman he could bear to touch and if he didn’t find a mate his human form would be lost forever, and he would be chained until the executioner came for him. So, his brother arranged for an outsider to come for a marriage of convenience who would carry his heir, pregnant through artificial insemination, then the executioner would come for him.

The Story: Ryker’s brother Vector will have to fight for their lands and their power after Ryker is executed. He knew that Emily was not his true mate. He met her already and for an instant thought she might be his mate, but his dragon rebelled and he has been chained ever since. So, when she arrives, he is surprised to find out that she is not Emily and is in fact his true mate. Though he can’t tell her what he is until he claims her.

Katy doesn’t really know what she is doing. The only thing her sister told her is that she was supposed to sign a contract. She thinks it is a business contract. In my opinion the charade went on too long. Katy fell for Ryker, but still thought that he thought she was Emily. When in reality he knew from the beginning. Then every time she tried to tell him the truth, he put her off. I wasn’t quite sure why.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Tor Thom and Grace Goodwin. Tor Thom has a super deep voice which is great for paranormal romantic Heroes. I really enjoy his voice and narration style.

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