Four broken souls. One impossible oath.
Under the Reign of Dragons, every oath casts a shadow. Auric, the long-ago heir to a vanished kingdom, is now a guilt-haunted mage who survived where his friends fell to dragon fire. When the tyrannical dragon Yeralax dares him to try again, Auric swears an impossible oath: kill the dragon that broke his world and end the Reign of Dragons, even if it costs him what little he has left.
To keep that promise, he must cross a dragon-ruled continent with a mismatched band: Dervish, a sharp-tongued Dwarm thief; Lamb, a poetry-loving minotaur; and Anic, the assassin who owes him a life-debt. In a land where holy orders twist faith into control and mercy is used to keep people bent but not broken, every choice they make deepens the shadows around them. If Auric cannot face the truth about the night his friends died, his oath will destroy more than Yeralax—it will consume the people he has finally learned to need.
