Nationally bestselling fantasy legend Mercedes Lackey created a vivid, dynamic fusion from the Upper and Lesser Kingdoms of ancient Egypt with exciting, authentic and believable portrayal of dragons ever imagined. In the second novel in Mercedes Lackey’s richly conceived Dragon Jousters series, the dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth. There, he expectations to teach his people to increase and train dragons-and build an army which will liberate his homeland.