After his lover is executed for the simple crime of being a commoner, Xeras, a young nobleman of Tirrin, turns his back on his life of privilege and flees into the wilderness. Weighed down with grief, exhaustion and hunger, Xeras awakens from one confusing night in the forest with the ghostly voice of his lover in his head and the embryo of a dragon implanted in his side. When Xeras encounters Carly, the Duke of Ballots Keep, he is far from ready to fall in love again. Xeras accepts an opportunity to go after the dragons, who have been making life difficult for the people of the local towns.
210 pages, paperback