Author(s): Jeff Wheeler

New Fantasy & Science Fiction

SHE AWAKENED THE DRAGON OF NIGHT. NOW SHE IS DESTINED TO DEFEAT IT.Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman and collector of rare artefacts has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness's dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its tombs has a price.Echion, emperor of the Grave Kingdom, ruler of darkness, Dragon of Night, has long been entombed. Now Bingmei has unwittingly awakened him and is answerable to a legendary prophecy. Destroying the dark lord before he reclaims the kingdoms of the living is her inherited mission. Killing Bingmei before she fulfils it is Echion's.Thrust unprepared into the role of saviour, urged on by a renegade prince and possessing a magic that is her destiny, Bingmei knows what she must do. But what must she risk to honour her ancestors? Bingmei's fateful choice is one that neither her friends nor her enemies can foretell, as Echion's dark war for control unfolds.