Prologue

That teacher that everyone thinks is a little weird but who teaches really well: he could be one of them. The nice lady at check-out in the supermarket who's line moves faster than all the others: she could be one of them. That doctor that somehow manages to save even the most hopeless patients: he's probably one of them.

It's a world where some people are a bit different than most others. Or completely different in fact, the main difference being that those people... aren't people. They are dragons. Shape-shifters, to be exact: humans with the ability to turn into dragons, adopting their form and nature for as long as they please.

It's a fact unknown to most, even though there are quite a lot of them living among those so-called normal humans. Fearing being discovered, locked up in labs for studies or being used for petty war projects, the dragons hide their existance and those among them who aren't able to hide yet: namely, their young.

Troye Sivan Mellet is one of those young dragons. Born the son of a dragon mother and human father, he grew up knowing everything about the existence and nature of dragons. Eventually, shortly after his 20th birthday, he'd "hatched" into a dragon himself for the first time and was sent to one of the (among dragons) most famous schools: The Nest of Seoay, in the wild sea somewhere north of Scotland. Among many others, he meets Tyler Oakley there; a grumpy, bad tempered fellow student who should have been out of there over a year ago, but apparently isn't allowed to leave.

A twist of fate (or the twisted sense of humour of their principal) forces them to work closer together than either of them appreciates... At least until they discover the benefits of that forced relationship, that ends up being put to an ultimate test in which not only their own lives depend on it, but possibly the fate of the entire world...