If you enjoy the broad, vast world of stories like Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive…or the majestic dragons and magical foes from worlds like Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle, then this sweeping epic is for you.
The dragon’s thief. The Wraiths’ assassin. Ancient world-shaking threats.
Evander has spent half his life as a scout, loyally serving King Sigurd of the East. However, when a wedding is planned, deals are made, and a secret is revealed, Evander can no longer remain dutifully quiet. He steals the dragon egg – the last breathing link to the ancient beasts long thought to be extinct. While raising the dragon behind King Sigurd’s back, Evander learns truths of druid history, the world’s darker past, and what it means to be Dragonblessed. However, raising a dragon doesn’t come without consequences. After his home is turned to ash, and his childhood friends are lost, Evander and the dragon Emerald must flee to undo ancient bonds and start a revolution….
Freya is an assassin bound by oath and blood to the Wraiths, and has only one mission: to kill. The elves and dwarves fear her, and her curse of foresight forces her to win in every confrontation. However, when the king of Femdürin’s plans to obtain the last living dragon go awry, Freya is sent halfway across the country to retrieve the dragon and its newfound partner under the guise of a friend, bringing them back to be ambushed and slaughtered. If she accomplishes this, her memory will be wiped, allowing her to live a peaceful life, unhaunted by the horrors of her past. However, as Freya’s mission progresses, her loyalty wavers, and her sympathies begin to shift. In the end, could she truly choose betrayal?
In Femdürin’s neighboring islands, Princess Arya learns of her father’s plot, and knows, despite the dangers, she can’t sit idle. With nothing but a griffon and the guidance of a mysterious woman, Arya must find an ancient rebellion—one that could determine the very fate of Femdürin. Can she get there and warn them of Femdürin’s impending demise before Evander and his dragon walk right into a trap?
Kingdoms are on the move, bounty hunters close in, and the land itself trembles with Quakes. All while Evander is led deep into a web of lies spun by magic older than the very ground the people walk on. Betrayal is at hand. War has already begun. And the survival of Femdürin does not rest on armies or the will of kings, but on the survival of a single boy and dragon.
Joseph Hare 