King of Scars (King of Scars #1) Kawaguchi even though he has his

even though he has his hands full in finding a new location for his next restaurant while also playing mediator between his brother and father

with a family reunion that leads to murder

hiding their addictions from their families

He's too busy running the pie shop his grandmother left him and reminding his nosy but lovable neighbors to mind their own damn business

And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules

King of Scars (King of Scars #1) Kawaguchi even though he has hisFace your demons or feed them. The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger,