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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail should have entered the Scribes' Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates fighting to become Navarre's elite: the dragonriders.

But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is frail, death is just a heartbeat away... because dragons don't bond with "fragile" humans. They incinerate us. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to increase their chances of success.

Others would kill her simply for being her mother's daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless winged leader in the Knight Quadrant. She'll need every advantage her intelligence can give her just to see the next sunrise.

However, with each passing day, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protections are failing, 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 Warschool has a goal—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

Author: Rebecca Yarros