Everyone anticipated Violet Sorrengail to perish during her first year at Basgiath War CollegeViolet included. But Threshing was simply the first difficult test aimed to cull out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unfortunate.
Now the actual training starts, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not simply that it's arduous and wickedly violent, or even that it's meant to strain the riders' tolerance for suffering beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his particular goal to demonstrate Violet precisely how helpless she isunless she betrays the guy she loves.
Although Violet's body may be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her witsand a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most crucial thing Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders set their own rules.
But a will to survive won't be enough this year.
Because Violet knows the actual truth concealed for years at Basgiath War Collegeand nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to rescue them in t