Meka must capture a king dragon, or die trying.

War between the island states of Kattaka and Mazemoor has left no one unscathed. Mekas nomadic people, the BaSuon, were driven from their homeland by the Kattakans. Those who remained were forced to live under the Kattakan yoke, to serve their greed for gold alongside the dragons with whom the BaSuon share an empathic connection.

A decade later and under a fragile truce, Meka returns home from her exile for an ancient, necessary rite: gathering a king dragon of the Crown Mountains to maintain balance in the wild country. But Mekas act of compassion toward an imprisoned dragon and Lilley, a Kattakan veteran of the war, soon draws the ire of the imperialistic authorities. They order the unwelcome addition of an enigmatic BaSuon traitor named Raka to accompany Meka and Lilley to the mountains.

The journey is filled with dangers both within and without. As conflict threatens to reignite, the survival of the BaSuon people, their dragons, and the land itself will depend on the decisions defiant or compliant that Meka and her companions choose to make. But not even Meka, kin to the great dragons of the North, can anticipate the depth of the consequences to her world.