BookXaden has started turning venin, Violet's mother is dead, and the rebel city's shield has about six months left. Violet flies across the sea to find allies, and the lost kin of her young dragon who might save the city and maybe even cure Xaden.
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On the first island, magic stops working for everyone except Violet. The king orders them all killed until Xaden goes a little bit monster to get them out. On the next, the queen will only help in exchange for dragon eggs, and Violet refuses.
Then they meet Xaden's mother, who left him as a child, and her new husband tries to poison everyone. On another island a card game of luck turns deadly for one of the squad. When Violet finally finds her dragon's lost kind, they are disappointed in humanity, won't help, say there is no cure, and her young dragon leaves with them.
Meanwhile a silver-haired dark wielder named Theophanie is hunting Violet, and Violet discovers a second power: she can walk in dreams. Her nightmares were Xaden's.
How it ends
In the final battle Theophanie slits the throat of Violet's sister Mira, and their brother barely saves her. Violet's dragon returns in time and Violet kills Theophanie, but Xaden sinks deeper into the dark to protect her. Violet wakes with twelve hours erased from her memory, a wedding ring on her finger, riders dead, dragon eggs missing, and a note from Xaden telling her not to look for him.
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