Fourth Wing

Violet Sorrengail, twenty, was expected to move into the Scribe Quadrant and have a peaceful existence surrounded by books and historical artifacts. The commanding general, who is also Violet's fierce mother, has now given Violet the order to enlist among the hundreds of applicants vying to become dragon riders, Navarre's elite.

However, death is just a heartbeat away if you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle since dragons don't form bonds with "fragile" people. They set them on fire.

Since dragons are less likely than cadets to form bonds, most would murder Violet to increase their own chances of succeeding. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

To see the next daybreak, she will need every advantage her cunning can provide.

However, the death toll is rising, the wards of the kingdom are weakening, and the outside fight becomes deadlier by the day. Violet is ever more suspicious that the leadership is concealing a horrible secret.

Enemies, lovers, and friends. As there are only two ways out of Basgiath War College—graduate or perish—everyone there has a goal.