The second volume in the Empyrean series after Fourth Wing.
The YA fantasy phenomenon everyone is talking about.
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet most of all. But Threshing was only the first of a series of impossible trials designed to weed out the faint-hearted, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet isn't sure how she'll make it through. Not only because it's brutal and exhausting, nor because it's designed to push riders' pain thresholds to the limit, but because the new vice commandant is determined to show Violet how weak she is unless she betrays the man she loves.
Though Violet's body is more fragile than her peers', her strength lies in her wit and iron will. Plus, the leaders are forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught them: dragon riders make their own rules.
The will to survive won't be enough this year, because Violet knows the secret hidden within the college walls, and nothing, not even dragonfire, will be enough to save them.
