With senior high school finished for the summer, Nick looks forward to visiting his aunt and uncle in NJ. What awaits him is usually a heat wave like no other-and the last two Greywing dragons on earth. Nick has an innate capability to train horses but will he have the ability to translate his amazing skill to these teenage dragons?The steaming soup of mid-summer heats up tempers and tests resolve as Nick vies with fellow trainers, Keith and Maxie, for mastery over their new charges. The dragons, Nikita and Michael, normal teenagers themselves, have other ideas.Nick treads a torturous route through a minefield of competing demands: the goals of his aunt and uncle, recalcitrant horses, the Academy’s female students as well as the overwhelming egos of Nikita and Michael. One little mistake erupts right into a conflagration that hurls everyone right into a competition against time and the frustrating forces of nature.