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“Exciting, sexy and incredibly entertaining The first part of the Yarros' Empyrean series is full of stories and will delight fans of romantic, adventurous fantasy.. A fantasy like you've never read before." - Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Enter the brutal, elite world of a dragon rider war school from America's Today bestselling author, Rebecca Yarros
Twenty Eighteen-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant and live a quiet life surrounded by books and history.Now the commanding general (aka her tough mother) has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates vying to become Navarre's elite: the Dragon Riders.
But when you are smaller than others and your body is fragile, death is just a heartbeat away... because dragons don't bond with "fragile" people. They burn them.
With fewer dragons than the cadets willing to join, most would kill Violet to improve their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just because she was her mother's daughter, like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wing leader in the Rider Quadrant.You'll need every advantage your mind can give you just to see the next sunrise.
But with each passing day, the war outside grows deadlier, the kingdom's protective barriers fail, and the death toll continues to rise. Worse still, Violet begins to suspect that the leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda because once you get in there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
