In a modern world dominated by dragons, a human discovers an ability to take a dragon's flame and changes everything. When Bree is snatched by a dragon off the sidewalk while going to catch her bus, she knows she is going to die, but something goes wrong. When the dragon's flame touches her, it goes out. She is taken to a dragon strong hold, where she discovers that she can breathe fire and the dragon can't. Bree is scared of the out of control fire in her chest that bursts from her when her anger is too great. The dragon, Juliet, cannot live without her flame. Bree is as eager to get rid of the fire as Juliet is to get it back. Together, they embark on a quest to be set right again. Bree must face a world full of dragons as she travels with the dragon that tried to kill her. Juliet must navigate the world with a cold pit in her chest, the only dragon to have ever been separated so fully from her flame. The unlikely pair must learn to work together as they search for a sorcerer that might be able to return them to normal.