The writer of Heartstone once again infuses components of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with her own brand of magic with this addictive fantasy that brings back sparring lovers Aliza and Alastair: fierce warriors who match wits, charm, and swords as they fight an epic war to save their world.

The Fight of North Fields is over-or so Aliza Bentaine, now a Daired, fervently wants to believe. But rumours are spreading of the unseen monster ravaging the isolated Castle Selwyn over the northern border from the kingdom. When she and Alastair are summoned using their honeymoon by the mystical Lord Selwyn, they must travel using their dragon Akarra through the Tekari-infested Aged Wilds of Arle to answer his call.

And they’re not alone on this treacherous trip. Shadowing the dragonriders is an historic wicked, a harbinger of the dark threat of which the Worm was just a foretaste. And shortly Aliza realizes the terrible truth: the true war is only beginning.