Deborah A. Wolf presents an epic dream in the custom of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey.

In the heart of the singing desert, the folks are fading from your world. Mothers keep few live kids, the warriors and wardens are hard-pressed to protect those who stay, and the vash’ai-the great pet cats who have known as individuals kithren for so long as there were stories-bond with fewer humans each year. High above, sunlight Dragon sings a melody of life and love while far below, the Earth about The Dragon’s Legacy Dragon slumbers as she has since the beginning of time. Her rest is definitely fitful, and from your darkness of her dreams arrive whispers of battle … and death.

Sulema is a newly minted warrior of the people and a genuine Ja’Akari-a daughter of the unforgiving desert. Whenever a mysterious son shows up in her home of Aish Kalumm, she learns that this Dragon King is dying in distant Atualon. As the ruler fades, so does the magic that sings the Earth Dragon to rest.

There are those who wish to keep carefully the dragon trapped in endless slumber. Others would tap her capacity to claim it for his or her own. And you will find those who could have her wake, therefore they might giggle as the world burns.