Her Dragon Nerd: A Frog Prince Retelling

Demelza Carlton

Sep 2026 · Fated Mates of Mirror Academy Romantasy series Book 7 · Lost Plot Press

About this ebook

When Diana Argyros vanished from a Mirror Academy ball, no one believed the story: that she’d found her fated mate and run away to be with him. Her brother Blaze searched. The whole academy whispered. The truth was stranger than any of them guessed — she’d knocked a golden ball into an old well and freed a frog.

Not just any frog. Astrit, Duke of Pharamund — eighteenth-century scholar, exiled Frenchman, green dragon shifter, and the most reluctantly cursed man in the Highlands. A kiss is all it takes to free him… and leave Diana staring at a duke who’s two hundred years behind on the news, calling her the mate he’s waited centuries to find.

She can’t simply take his word for it. A dragon knows her mate in her bones — but Diana has never once shifted, so all she can do is keep the lost duke close, show him everything he missed, and let him carry her through Highland skies she’s only ever watched from the ground. And somewhere in two centuries of catching up, the cover story starts to feel less like a lie and more like a life she could choose. The silver dragon she was always told she’d never become might be waiting on the far side of one impossible leap of faith — if she’s brave enough to claim a mate she can’t yet feel, in time to fly home for the sanctuary’s grand opening… and a wedding on the shore of Loch Sanctuary that’s been a very long time coming.

Find out in Her Dragon Nerd, the grand finale of the Fated Mates of Mirror Academy — a swoony Frog Prince retelling with a time-lost dragon duke, a veterinarian who finally dares to take to the skies, a slow-burn fated-mates romance, found family, and the happily ever after that started it all. One-click to claim your fate and close the series today!

Ratings and reviews

This was a fun book to read. Ever since book 1, I've been looking forward to finding out what happened to Diana. This book satisfied that curiosity & had some fun interactions with the characters from the previous books. The romance was pretty steamy. I especially loved Diana's character. There were a few things I wish would have been explored more in depth, but overall I enjoyed reading this book & will gladly read it again. I received a copy from the author & this is my honest review.

What a difference 250 years make! 4.5🌟 Very good, different vibe, way to end an imaginative, enjoyable series about shifters finding their one & only. Both proud Diana & aristocratically overconfident Astrit have flaws which make them working things out an entertaining battle of the sexes. Dragon shifter Astrit has come out of a spell curse after 250 years as a frog; he's confused & stuck in the past, with a fated mate who's a rich modern gal strident about her wants. Some steam, series HEA.

Finally get to see what happened to Diana. And the why and how she went missing had me laughing a lot. Just funny to read and I could not stop until the end.

About the author

Demelza Carlton is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 100 fairytale and paranormal romances, with over 4 million copies sold worldwide and readers in 30+ languages. She's best known as the queen of fairytale romance — author of the Romance a Medieval Fairytale series, a 27-book collection of steamy, meticulously-researched retellings of the stories you grew up with: Beauty and the Beast (Enchant), Cinderella (Dance), Little Mermaid (Silence), Sleeping Beauty (Awaken), Snow White (Reflect), Rapunzel (Weave), Red Riding Hood (Hunt), Rumpelstiltskin (Spin), Aladdin (Wish), Hansel and Gretel (Return)… twenty-seven and counting, all set in a single shared medieval world, all written for grown-ups who never stopped loving the happily ever after. If fairytales aren't your thing, there's plenty more on the shelf. Monster romance readers can pick up the Heart of Stone, Heart of Steel and Heart of Ice series — gargoyle shifters who protect the human women they fall for, and Norse gods (Fenrir, Thor, Loki, Odin) walking around in modern-day Perth, with all the chaos that implies. Romantasy fans should head to Fated Mates of Mirror Academy: dragon, lion, wolf, tiger and bear shifters in a steamy fated-mates shifter academy. Think enemies-to-lovers, found family, and one truly unwise dragon nerd. Sci-fi romance readers go to The Colony series — three arcs (Holiday, Aqua, Nyx), aliens with personality, cowboys (yes, really), and an interplanetary romance line-up that's gone seriously sideways. Romantic comedy lives in two places: Mel Goes to Hell (Lucifer is real, he's hot, and he's a terrible boss), and Romance Island Resort, a luxury tropical island where the staff keep falling for the guests — rock stars, billionaires and the kind of bridal parties paradise was made for. For the romantic-suspense and psychological-thriller end of Demelza's catalogue, head deeper. The Siren of War series stars predatory sirens — Homer's deadly seductresses, not Disney's Ariel — lurking in the deep off Western Australia's Indian Ocean coast, in aqua and turquoise water with currents that aren't nearly so polite. And the Nightmares Trilogy is the romantic-suspense series that started Demelza's career: a psychological thriller where a girl is kidnapped by a serial killer, survives against the odds, and turns vigilante when she fears ordinary justice will fail her. What ties everything together: funny, hopeful, sexy stories where the heroine isn't sorry about wanting what she wants, the villains absolutely get what's coming to them, and a little vigilante justice goes a long way. Meticulously researched but never bogged down in detail — bright, fast and unapologetically Australian. The personal bit: Demelza lives in Perth, Western Australia — officially the shark attack capital of the world. On her first ever snorkelling trip she discovered she was afraid of fish, then got over it; since then she's swum with sea lions, sharks and sea cucumbers, and once stood on a spray-drenched cliff as a seven-metre cyclonic swell surged in and shattered a shipwreck below her. (She had the camera out, naturally.) She can also assure you that sharks taste delicious. Where to start: the free reader quiz at demelzacarlton.com matches you to up to nine free books based on what kind of reader you actually are.