The Empyrean

What it's about

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

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But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter―like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Hardcover's description of the first book, Fourth Wing.

The books

  • Book 1
    2023 517 pages 4.02 · 4,003 ratings on Hardcover
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  • Book 2
    2023 640 pages 4.00 · 2,610 ratings on Hardcover
  • Book 3
    2025 527 pages 3.96 · 1,557 ratings on Hardcover
  • Book 3.5
    2026 224 pages 4.23 · 217 ratings on Hardcover
Not out yet · 1 book

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