The princess has received a sign of the dragons’ choosing and is going to the selection, and me—the best student of the Royal Academy—forced to travel with her as a bodyguard. The winged ones don’t like people, and I was sure I wouldn’t stay in their empire longer than a week, but the great spirits of the dragon ancestors interfered with those plans. Now my main mission is to survive. But how do you do that when enemies are waiting at every corner—and the Emperor’s cold, ice-cold first advisor openly hates me? I’d rather avoid him by the tenth road, but fate has its own plans for everything.
1. A bright, bold, memorable heroine.
2. A tense plot full of mysteries.
3. A palace, balls, dances, beautiful dresses.
4. Dragons!
5. A explosive, piercing finale.