Laird's Shadow Queen

Logic and physics are Dr. Zola Okoro's entire world. As a brilliant structural engineer from 2024 London, she calculates vectors, not prophecies. But when an anomalous electromagnetic strike at an ancient Scottish stone circle shatters her reality, Zola is thrown back in time to 1513. She awakens in the brutal, unforgiving Highlands—face-to-face with a terrifying, obsidian-scaled dragon who shifts into an even more dangerous man.Lachlan, the fierce Laird of MacDraig, is a monster in a crown. For four hundred years, he has fought a losing battle against the Dragon's Curse—a feral, liquid-sun fire in his blood that is slowly burning away his sanity. But when the stones deliver Zola, the roaring in his skull finally stops. Her unique temporal frequency makes her the perfect "e;ground"e; to absorb his lethal heat. To Lachlan, she is the miracle his beast has waited centuries for, and he will tear the heavens down to claim his new hoard.Trapped in a crumbling fortress, Zola refuses to be a helpless prize. As a ruthless rival clan marches on the keep with royal cannons, she barters her brilliant mind for her survival. Using her modern engineering genius, she works to rebuild the failing MacDraig defenses and outmaneuver the King of Scotland. But her most dangerous challenge is the possessive, centuries-old warlord whose touch sets her blood on fire.As war threatens to bury them in ash and the temporal fracture reopens to pull her back to the safety of the 21st century, Zola must make an impossible choice. Return to the cold, lonely logic of her modern life, or surrender to the fire and reign forever as the dragon's Shadow Queen.A Dark BWWM Time Travel Dragon Shifter Highlander Romance.