The first year is when some of us die, the second year is when people lose their mentality while remembering them. —Xaden Riorson
Everyone expected Violet Sorrenzel to die during her first year at the Basquiat War College, but that did not happen – including Violet herself. But the thrashing was only the first very impossible test intended to weed out the weak-willed, the unlucky and the unworthy from the college.
Now the real training begins, and Violet is already thinking about how she will succeed. It’s not just that it’s gruesome and maliciously cruel, or even that it’s designed to stretch riders’ ability to tolerate pain beyond endurance. This is the new Vice Commandant, who has made it his personal mission to teach Violet how powerless she is – unless she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violet may be very weak and physically weak in comparison to each person else, she nevertheless has her own intelligence and robust will. And the leadership is forgetting the maximum crucial lesson taught via Basgiath: dragon riders make their very own rules.
But determination to survive will not be enough this year.
Because Violet Basgith knows the true secret hidden for centuries at the War College – and nothing, not even dragon fire, can be worthy of saving them in the end.
Original title: Iron Flame
Series: The Empyrean (#2)
This Edition
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Published: November 7, 2023 by Entangled: Red Tower Books
ISBN: 9781649374172 (ISBN10: 1649374178)
Language: English
