Apollo can brew any elixir…except the one to resist Lachlan Bloody Ironwood. When Apollo Greatdrakes—alchemist playboy and reluctant dragon shifter—is kidnapped by a secret society of blood mages he expects his family to come to rescue him. What he gets is Lachlan Ironwood storming in very pissed off and utterly irresistible. With the Sanguis Vitae—a centuries-old alchemical order obsessed with immortality—believing Apollo is their perfect specimen they won't stop until they have what they want: a dragon under their control and their scalpels. Now Apollo and Lachlan must put aside their messy feelings and focus on taking down the ancient order of alchemists before they attack someone else they love. But there's another kind of chemistry brewing between them that can't be ignored. Apollo knows Lachlan is his fated mate but he's terrified of claiming a man who might not be capable of the forever that dragons demand. Meanwhile Lachlan is determine