Blood Wings (Empyrean 1) Enriched and Limited Collector's Edition Hardcover.

Violet Sorrengail believed she would join the Scribe Quadrant to live a quiet life. However, under orders from her mother, she must join the thousands of candidates who, at Basgiath War College, fight to be part of Navarre's elite: the Dragon Rider Quadrant. When you are smaller and frailer than others, your life is in danger, because dragons do not bond with weak humans. Furthermore, with more riders than available dragons, many would kill her to improve their chances of success; and there are others, like the ruthless Xaden Riorson, the most powerful wing leader in the Rider Quadrant, who would simply assassinate her for being the general commander's daughter. To survive, she will need to make the most of all her wit. As the war becomes more lethal, Violet suspects that Navarre's leaders are hiding a terrible secret...