When the prince she loves brings his betrothed to his great house, Ghysla, a creature from another race of beings that possesses magical powers, exacts a terrible revenge.
Vetch, an Altan serf who was saved by a dragon-rider and trained to be a dragon-boy, cannot forget the family he lost during the war, and steals a dragon egg in the hopes of raising the dragon as his own and using it to help find his family.
After the Tedrel War, the kingdom of Valdemar tries to recover from the loss of their king, and accept his daughter as their new leader, despite their doubts about her abilities as Queen.
Lukien, the Bronze Knight of Liiria and champion of the young King Akeela, is torn between love and loyalty when he accompanies Akeela on a mission of peace to the neighboring kingdom of Reec and falls in love with the beautiful princess Cassandra whose hand is promised in marriage to his friend and king.
On a space station abandoned by Earth support, scientist Gail Smith searches for Aaron Pardell, a special human child who may possess powers to fight the Quill, the deadly alien force that threatens the colonists' survival.
The starship Phoenix returns to the planet it abandoned two centuries earlier in the hopes of convincing the planet's aliens to trade technology for the manpower needed to rebuild their space station.
