A Destiny of Dragons

A year has passed since Sam of Wilds won his happy ending with Knight Commander Ryan Foxheart. Life is good. His parents are thriving, Gary and Tiggy, his friends, are doing well too, and the only thing that still disturbs his peace is the occasional kidnapping.

Then Vadoma arrives in the City of Lockes. She leads a gypsy clan, and she is also Sam's grandmother. Her news is bad: a man of shadows is rising, and he will consume the world unless Sam accepts his destiny and gathers the five dragons of Verania.

Vadoma has not come alone. With her is Ruv, her second-in-command, who she says is tied to Sam in ways Sam does not expect. What that tie means is left for the reader to find out.

This is the second book in the Tales from Verania series and picks up directly from the first, so it reads best after Sam of Wilds. The tone stays broad and comic, with plenty of humor in the quest and its company, while the emotional stakes of Sam's own story rise.