Defiant

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The great powers are stirring and Holt and Ash are ready to return to the fight.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A summons from the Life Elder sets them on a perilous mission leading to steaming jungles and blistering islands where ancient secrets will challenge everything they know of magic and dragons.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Talia the Red Queen is beset on all sides by pirate raiders and marauding mercenaries. Empress Skadi has abandoned her battling uprisings in her own lands. As the noose tightens on Feorlen Talia faces a difficult choice: let her people suffer or turn her powers against mortal foes?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Osric Agravain has found hope with his newly bonded black dragon but some wounds run deeper than flesh and bone. Along the Fallow Frontier he seeks the inner peace that has long eluded him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And within the sanctum at Falcaer Paragon Adaskar is struggling to unite the fracturing riders. If he fails ruinous chaos will break across the world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For when Elders and Paragons quarrel kingdoms will fall.</strong></p>