The moon was being devoured.
Estranged from birth and raised on tales of the great mountain castle of Idrith-Core, where her distant father serves as Lord Commander and confidante of the King, Aledra Jewel-Wing was now going there to court.
As one of the Drakkoni, a race of powerful shape-shifters and conquerors of a wild land, she joins herstepmother at the festival for all peoples. But when in attempting to save a life, Aledra shifts into her Drakkoni Secondskin - her beautiful second soul: a giant flighted lizard with flaming breath - she breaksan ancient oath, and the tremulous peace between the Drakkoni and Esrans is shattered.
Branded a fugitive, hunted by her father, and aided in escape by the master-mancer who raised her, Aledra begins a journey for survival across a war-torn continent.
Praise for Sue Bentley:
'Sue Bentley's dark, sensual, magical story will catch you in the gut, move your heart and set your imagination on fire. It's unmissable.' -Thea Bennett, Radio Times.
Sue Bentley lives in Northamptonshire. She is the author of over seventy books, published in her ownname and using a pen name. She is a bestseller both as herself and as another persona. Her books foryoung readers have sold over two million copies and have been translated into over twenty languages.
Estranged from birth and raised on tales of the great mountain castle of Idrith-Core, where her distant father serves as Lord Commander and confidante of the King, Aledra Jewel-Wing was now going there to court.
As one of the Drakkoni, a race of powerful shape-shifters and conquerors of a wild land, she joins herstepmother at the festival for all peoples. But when in attempting to save a life, Aledra shifts into her Drakkoni Secondskin - her beautiful second soul: a giant flighted lizard with flaming breath - she breaksan ancient oath, and the tremulous peace between the Drakkoni and Esrans is shattered.
Branded a fugitive, hunted by her father, and aided in escape by the master-mancer who raised her, Aledra begins a journey for survival across a war-torn continent.
Praise for Sue Bentley:
'Sue Bentley's dark, sensual, magical story will catch you in the gut, move your heart and set your imagination on fire. It's unmissable.' -Thea Bennett, Radio Times.
Sue Bentley lives in Northamptonshire. She is the author of over seventy books, published in her ownname and using a pen name. She is a bestseller both as herself and as another persona. Her books foryoung readers have sold over two million copies and have been translated into over twenty languages.
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