The Sky on Fire

Seventeen years ago, Anahrod Amnead was a promising dragonrider candidate in the sky cities until she was accused of stealing from a dragon's hoard and dropped into the Deep, the harsh, storm-ridden land far below. She survived, and she built a life there alone, with a titan drake for company and a legend back home that calls her Anahrod the Wicked.

Then a band of adventurers rescues her from the warlord hunting her, and the rescue comes with a price. They want her help to rob the very hoard she was once blamed for stealing from, and the hoard belongs to the regent who wants her dead. To get there she must return to the dragon-ruled sky cities, where dragons are as intelligent as people and more powerful, and where bonding with a rider is a choice rather than an instinct.

The Sky on Fire is a standalone fantasy heist from the author of the Chorus of Dragons series. It follows the genre's classic beats, with a crack team of misfits, careful plans, clever ruses, last-minute setbacks and betrayals, along with banter and a touch of romance, and it plays with the conventions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern.