Violet Sorrengail has spent her life preparing to become a scribe, but everything changes when her mother forces her to join the brutal Rider Quadrant. Smaller and physically weaker than most cadets, Violet enters Basgiath War College knowing many want her dead before she ever gets the chance to bond with a dragon. As she fights to survive deadly challenges, she finds herself drawn to the dangerous and mysterious Xaden Riorson, the son of a rebel leader. What begins as fear and distrust slowly grows into something neither of them expected, while secrets hidden within Navarre threaten everything Violet thought she knew about her world.