Violet Sorrengail expected to live a quiet life surrounded by books, until she was forced onto the world's deadliest training ground.

Now she must fight to join the army's elite: dragon riders. But dragons don't choose fragile riders, they incinerate them, and when your body breaks as easily as Violet's does - death is only a heartbeat away. EVERY NIGHT COULD BE YOUR LASTMany cadets would kill Violet to better their own chances of success; the rest would kill her just because of her last name .

. . including the ruthless Xaden Riorson, her family's greatest enemy.