Her son is starving. The only thing that can save him is a dragon. For two years, Caitrin Harlow has watched her eight-year-old son waste away. Three hospitals. Eleven doctors. No diagnosis, only a hunger nothing can fill. Then she opens her late grandmother's journal and finds the word her family never said out loud: dragons. They're real. They're hidden. And they're the only thing Alaric can eat. Caitrin becomes a hunter, until the trail leads her to Celestial Garden, a quiet restaurant whose elderly owner has been expecting her. Upstairs, behind a locked door, his family has sheltered dragons for seven generations. And some of those dragons are willing to give their lives for her son. With every dragon Alaric takes in, he changes: scales, strange eyes, senses no child should have. Your son is not sick, the old man tells her. He is unfinished. But a woman with scales beneath her sleeves has been watching the boy too. She has survived for two hundred years by hiding, and she has terrifying reasons to stop him. The authorities want Caitrin's son. A secret order wants him contained. And the only way to save him runs through seven elemental trials, down hidden roads beneath the earth, toward a lost city above the clouds. Caitrin crossed every line to keep her son alive. Now she must learn the hardest thing a mother can do: let him become what he was always meant to be. Aetheria: The Dragon Prophecy is the first book in a contemporary fantasy series about family, sacrifice, and the ancient bond between humans and dragons.