Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College\u2014Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet\u2019s wondering how she\u2019ll get through it. It\u2019s not just that it\u2019s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it\u2019s designed to stretch the riders\u2019 capacity for pain beyond endurance. It\u2019s the new vice commandant, who\u2019s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is\u2014unless she betrays the man she loves.<\/p>\n
Although Violet\u2019s body is weaker and frailer than everyone else\u2019s, she has her wits\u2014and a will of iron. Leadership forgets the most important lesson Basgiath taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But determination to survive won\u2019t be enough this year, because Violet knows the secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College\u2014and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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