A healer and a dragon queen. They're meant for each other-and for so much more.
A baby, abandoned on a harsh slope to die. She grew into a healer, but she can't grow out of the thing that keeps her from being entirely human.
An ice-blue dragon who will one day be queen. Self-confident, and beloved, but there has always been a hole inside her that nothing can fill.
Neither of them is ready for what awaits-but the Star doesn't wait for those it calls to be ready.
Sometimes being silly can be deadly serious.
Alonia is the kind of elf who wears a pretty dress to go gathering in the forest just because it makes her happy. And it seems to work. It gathers her a dragon, one who likes to be silly and moon over cute boys just like she does.
Which is all fine and good until they turn the weapon's master's sword into . . . well, I can't tell you. That would be a spoiler.
The Dragon Star has chosen again-and this time, it must be mistaken. Lily is off to an elf wedding with her friends, which might be a fate worse than death. So she thinks-until she sticks her fingers in the water of a river far from home. What she finds will change her life and challenge the bravest dragons she knows. And might involve some accidental dragon soup.
The ancient prophecy speaks of the five, those who will come to save all of dragonkind. Like most prophecies, it leaves out a lot of the important details . . . The very ordinary elf girl who runs for the hills-and gets lost in a forest instead. The dragon egg, precariously perched high in a tree on a dark winter's night. And what happens when egg meets girl.
