The Priory of the Orange Tree

Queen Sabran the Ninth rules Inys under the weight of a thousand-year-old myth: her bloodline alone can keep an ancient wyrm sealed away, and only her own daughter can continue it.

Ead Duryan, a mage sent by a secret order to guard the queen from assassins, must hide both her magic and her true loyalties inside a court that would burn her for either. Across the sea, Tané has trained her whole life for the chance to become a dragonrider, only to have one impulsive night threaten everything she's worked for.

And in the fallen ally-state of Yscalin, the disappearance of a nobleman named Loth draws him into a conspiracy that stretches from the eastern seas to the Nameless One's prison itself.

Four points of view, spanning several kingdoms with dragons of different kinds, converge as the wyrm's return draws near and old political and religious divisions threaten to keep the world from uniting against it.