To say that Authand yearned for adventure would be a lie. Life on his father’s farm was hard – always too much to do and never quite enough to eat – but it was his and that suited him just fine.

But sometimes life doesn’t give us what we want. While hunting, Authand finds something unthinkable, a lone dragon egg. Imprinting on a dragon hatchling means his life will be anything but ordinary. Especially when his father, the gentlest man he’d ever known, reacts violently.

Armed with nothing more than his wits – and a dragon – Authand must find his way to the famed Dragoneers for a place to call home in a world that has little love for a Black man… or a feral dragon