The army has been waiting in the desert for months. The fleet is at anchor. And Emperor Madrid has chosen his moment.
Seraphina left Hindra as a treasure-hunter's daughter, still wearing the helmet she pulled from a buried army on the day her purple dragon dropped out of the sky. She returns to find the largest military encampment in Gaia's history spread across the flat plateau of her home province — tent lines stretching to the horizon, engineered dragons darkening the sky, and the black fleet at anchor in the southern bay, waiting for the weather window that comes once a year.
Madrid is not occupying Hindra. He is launching from it.
She has three weeks before the wind opens. Three weeks to disrupt an army she cannot destroy, rescue the people who need saving, and find the one being in the world who can actually end this — a fire elemental living in a volcanic vent beneath the desert, who the prophecy calls the only one born of the elements who can defeat him, and who has no interest in being anyone's weapon.
Meanwhile, Sargon — her brother, the boy who once crowed over a bronze battle standard in the sand beside her — has been navigating Madrid's army across the dune cycles for fifteen years. He knows every hollow beneath the plateau. He has never been asked the right questions. Until now.
With Marion restored to full power, rescue operations finally begin — and the heartbearers who have been lost the longest start coming home. But coming home is not the same as coming back. Some wounds are too deep for even a healing dragon's breath.
As the fleet prepares to sail and the army moves toward the coast, the heartbearers of Gaia face a truth fifteen years in the making: every province they freed, every barrier they destroyed, every choice they made at terrible cost was not the war. It was the preparation for one.
The war is about to cross the sea.
Heart of Hindra is the tenth book in The Dragon Saga — the epic fantasy series where every bond is a choice, every choice has a price, and the price of freedom is always paid in full.
Genre: Fantasy
Seraphina left Hindra as a treasure-hunter's daughter, still wearing the helmet she pulled from a buried army on the day her purple dragon dropped out of the sky. She returns to find the largest military encampment in Gaia's history spread across the flat plateau of her home province — tent lines stretching to the horizon, engineered dragons darkening the sky, and the black fleet at anchor in the southern bay, waiting for the weather window that comes once a year.
Madrid is not occupying Hindra. He is launching from it.
She has three weeks before the wind opens. Three weeks to disrupt an army she cannot destroy, rescue the people who need saving, and find the one being in the world who can actually end this — a fire elemental living in a volcanic vent beneath the desert, who the prophecy calls the only one born of the elements who can defeat him, and who has no interest in being anyone's weapon.
Meanwhile, Sargon — her brother, the boy who once crowed over a bronze battle standard in the sand beside her — has been navigating Madrid's army across the dune cycles for fifteen years. He knows every hollow beneath the plateau. He has never been asked the right questions. Until now.
With Marion restored to full power, rescue operations finally begin — and the heartbearers who have been lost the longest start coming home. But coming home is not the same as coming back. Some wounds are too deep for even a healing dragon's breath.
As the fleet prepares to sail and the army moves toward the coast, the heartbearers of Gaia face a truth fifteen years in the making: every province they freed, every barrier they destroyed, every choice they made at terrible cost was not the war. It was the preparation for one.
The war is about to cross the sea.
Heart of Hindra is the tenth book in The Dragon Saga — the epic fantasy series where every bond is a choice, every choice has a price, and the price of freedom is always paid in full.
Genre: Fantasy