Evil is spreading across the Western Continent. One by one, kingdom, king, and wizard are falling under its influence.
Dragon King Bakari, Battlemaster Alli, and High Wizard Roland are now powerful leaders in their own right.
Differing missions and responsibilities have separated them; Bakari flies north to find the last Dragon Rider, Alli goes south to find the source of the evil, and Roland, leader of the Citadel, finds himself stuck in the magic stream without his body.
The Dragon King and his riders always emerge in times of great need-but will their powers be enough? Or will they succumb to the temptations of evil?
Each wizard and Rider will be tested-not all of them will pass.
The barrier is down. War is brewing.
Dragons fill the skies once more.
Bakari is the first dragon rider in centuries but he alone cannot subdue the growing tensions among the kingdoms around Alaris. He begins a quest to find more dragon riders-the only way to secure peace in the fractured lands around him.
Roland Tyre seizes control of the Citadel and carefully plays both sides-but his immense charm and considerable wizard powers may prove useless against a deadly and hidden enemy.
Battle Wizard Alli Stenos is in the thick of every fight she can find and only wants to secure an end to the violence.
As the three young wizards, Bakari, Roland, and Alli, become more powerful than many of their elders, will that be enough to keep Alaris, and the surrounding kingdoms, from descending into all out war?
Three young wizards. A magical barrier. Civil war.
The fate of a kingdom rests on the shoulders of three young wizards who couldn't be more different.
Bakari is a brilliant scholar wizard who's more at home in a library than a battlefield. Alli is a beautiful young battle wizard whose grace in battle is both enchanting and deadly. Roland is a counselor wizard with a seemingly limitless depth of untapped power-and the ego to match it.
As the magical barrier protecting the kingdom of Alaris from dangerous outsiders begins to fail, and a fomenting rebellion threatens to divide the country in a civil war, the three wizards are thrust into the middle of a power struggle.
When the barrier comes down, the truth comes out. Was everything they were taught about their kingdom based on a lie?
Will they all choose to fight on the same side, or end up enemies in the battle over who should rule Alaris?
