Maylea Broadfeather is not a dragonrider like her parents. That small detail hasn’t stopped her from sneaking aboard Reigh’s latest mission, though. Why? Because she has a mission all her own: to rescue her childhood friend from a gruesome demise in the distant land of Nar’Haleen and prove that her family’s legacy of greatness hasn’t ended. But trying to fill her father’s shoes may cost Maylea more than she ever imagined—especially when the God of Life, Paligno, offers her power in exchange for loyalty in the divine war now looming on the horizon. Is binding her fate to the will of an unpredictable deity going to be enough? Or will the grand game of divine power, dangerous secrets, and vicious motives seal her fate just as it did her parents’ long ago?

Clarke is hiding something. Tormented with visions and confusing nightmares, he suspects that the fate of the Compendium Library may have had something to do with him and the strange power that threatens to overtake his mind. Clarke fears that confessing his suspicions would also mean banishment to the dangerous jungles of Nar’Haleen where imperial forces may kill him on sight. But as his power grows and reveals divine secrets buried for centuries, Clarke can’t hide the truth for much longer. Will he be left to survive alone? Or will the depths of a long-forgotten temple finally unveil the truth of the power that threatens to drive him mad?