On a trip to a small, rural village to locate his long-time friend Antoine, Marcus is dismayed and saddened to learn that both Antoine and his wife Mala had been killed a few years ago by servants of the king, as had their son-in-law the smith. Their daughter Lia became the smith in her husband's stead, but she had also been trained by her father as a healer and so Marcus asks her to return to his holding to see if she would be willing to act as high healer there.

Antoine, Lia, and Marcus are dragons. Dragons, of course, cannot mate with humans, but since Lia is able to perform the transformation Marcus is overcome with lust and with the hope of making her his mate. Once they have mated, Lia is marked as his, rather unwillingly. Despite the intense sexual drive between them, the emotional tension is just as high and creates a very adversarial situation. 

Dragonlord is a highly erotic and graphically violent short tale as well as  very detailed in its depiction of dragon-kind. Viola Grace stirs in plenty of dragon lore to keep the reader's attention and weaves throughout the tale a sizzling eroticism, which will have the reader marking this as a bedtime reader. The descriptive settings are quite well done, and the characters finely delineated.