When a desperate king threatens Dion and everything he loves, only dangerous magic can keep him safe and sound. Dion, now king of Xanthos, is definitely finally in order from the naval fleet he’s constantly imagined. But his hopes for tranquility are jeopardized when Ruler Palemon, in dire need of boats to save his starving folks from the frozen wastelands of the north, invades the Salesian city of Malakai.

Too weak to confront Dion straight, Palemon changes to magic: mysterious copper stores from your lost civilization of Aleuthea, which have the potential to regulate dragons…and Dion. With the people he loves in danger, and his own freedom in danger, Dion’s only wish is Chloe and the power she problems to tame.