The world has been at peace for centuries.
That's all about to change...
Five powerful dragons and their children, the dragonkin, rule over mankind. The world is divided into five realms, each as different from the next as the dragons who claim them for their own. Everything is order, and the dragonkin are forbidden from entering another dragon's realm, for reasons no human has ever questioned nor understood.
Then a dragonkin of Droy Thus defies the edict of the dragons and crosses into Ascana, where it attacks Festival, the largest gathering of humans in the world. At the same time, another drowns itself, almost taking rescued shipwreck victim Nettie Marlowe with it, and a third is openly attacked by humans.
All while in the cruel, midnight realm of Reclium, yet another dragonkin sets a Life-taker named Viktoria Autumn on an almost impossible mission to steal a book that no one can read, but everyone seems to want.
And those remaining from an earlier age? Long before the dragons rose and betrayed them all? They wait to see if it's time to come out of hiding and reveal themselves at last.
The world has been at peace, but that's about to be shattered. What was order will become chaos.
When it's all over, will anyone remain to see what's left?