Book description
Two years have passed since the events of
The Order of the Scales
. Across the realms, dragons are still hatching. Hatching, and hatching free.
Skorl is an Ember, a soldier trained from birth to fight dragons. He is
a living weapon, one-shot only, saturated with enough dragon-poison to
bring down a monster all on his own. Misanthrope, violent and a drunk,
to fulfil his purpose and slay a dragon, means to be eaten. Now Skorl
has a choice: he can hang for his crimes, or he can go with the last of
the Adamantine Men, fighting against an enemy he was born to face.
Rat is an Outsider. He's on the run and he's stumbled onto something
that's going to make him rich beyond all his dreams. It's just a shame
that the end of the world has started without him.
Kataros is an alchemist, one of the order responsible for keeping the
dragons in check. One of the order that has just failed, and
disastrously so.
Two men, one woman. One chance to save the world from a storm of
dragons... Stephen Deas was born in 1968. He once set fire to Wales.
Well one bit of Wales. Twice. When not burning principalities, he played
too much D&D. Despite this he managed to study theoretical physics
at Cambridge, get a job at BAE, marry and have two children. He now
lives in Essex. With the Adamantine Palace he returned to his first
love; that of setting fire to things.
