from the limitless imagination of bestselling author julie kagawa comes the next fantastic adventure in the talon sagadeserter traitor rogueember hill left the dragon organization talon to take her chances with rebel dragon cobalt and his crew of rogues but ember cant forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed hergarret xavier sebastian a soldier of the dragonslaying order of st george the boy who saved her from a talon assassin knowing that by doing so hed signed his own death warrant determined to save garret from execution ember must convince cobalt to help her break into the orders headquarters with assassins after them and embers own brother helping talon with the hunt the rogues find an unexpected ally in garret and a new perspective on the underground battle between talon and st george a reckoning is brewing and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly soon ember must decide should she retreat to fight another dayor start an allout war