What to Read After Fourth Wing (If You Want More Heat)
So you tore through Fourth Wing. You loved the dragons, the bond, the tension you could cut with a dagger — and now you're staring at your Kindle wondering what could possibly fill that dragon-shaped hole.
Here's the question that actually matters: do you want your next dragon book to turn the heat up?
If the answer is yes, welcome. High-heat dragon shifter romance is my entire corner of the bookstore, and this is your map.
Start here: The Curse of the Dragon
The Curse of the Dragon is book 1 of my Dragon Lords series, and it was built for exactly this moment. An omega witch bargained away in marriage to a mad dragon prince — who rejects her in the worst way possible. Then one touch from his dangerous twin throws her whole world into chaos.
What you get that Fourth Wing keeps behind the door: fated mates you can feel on the page, mating heat, knotting, possessive alpha dragons who mean it when they say mine. What you keep: dragons, danger, a heroine with a spine, and stakes that carry a family saga across four books.
Every book in the series follows a new couple to a guaranteed happily-ever-after, so there's no cliffhanger dread — the reading order is The Curse of the Dragon, The Soul of the Dragon, The Heart of the Dragon, and The Fate of the Dragon, coming summer 2026.
If you want a fairy-tale twist with your dragons
Book 2, The Soul of the Dragon, is a Snow White huntsman story flipped sideways — a runaway fae princess and the dragon warrior sent to hunt her down. Book 3, The Heart of the Dragon, is Beauty and the Beast where Beauty does the kidnapping. Both stand alone if a trope grabs you.
If you want dragons AND small-town fated mates
My Enigma Falls Fated Mates series starts with Dragon Mated — dragons, wolves, and bears all finding their fated mates in one small paranormal town. Shorter, steamy, zero angst about whether the ending is happy.
The honest pitch
Fourth Wing is a war-college fantasy with romance in it. My books are romance first — the fantasy world is real and dangerous, but the love story drives every page, the spice is explicit, and the HEA is a promise, not a hope. If that's the direction you want to fly, start with The Curse of the Dragon.
Signed paperbacks with sprayed edges live at my store, ebooks are on Amazon, and my newsletter gets the first word when The Fate of the Dragon lands.
— Eliza