Condemned oath-forger Elara Quill bonds three civic dragons—and the three rival officers assigned to prove she betrayed the capital.

Bone-speaker Mara Sol wakes the colossal ancestor beneath Red Meridian—and it remembers her from a nation the military erased before her birth.

Rival captains Talia Frost and Juniper Kade are chosen by the last storm dragon—and discover the nation’s greatest hurricane is a prison for hatchlings.

Rejected by every dragon at Blackglass, Aria North is chosen by a broken night-dragon—and forced to share its memory bond with Cassian Veyr.

Detroit EMT Eli Mercer witnesses racing queen Reina Knox commit a crime, becoming the protected captive she cannot release and the one man she cannot silence.

Miami preservationist Celeste Baptiste is locked inside her Art Deco hotel with nightlife queen Vale Rojas as a hurricane drowns every escape route.

Wildfire scientist Nia Calder is trapped inside Sloane Ash’s fortified lookout as Oregon burns—and the woman holding the keys may be her only path out.

Crisis negotiator Mara Voss survives an assassination attempt only to wake inside Roman Bell’s camera-filled Las Vegas penthouse—and learn he has watched her for months.

Scholarship editor Imani Cross recuts nepo director Jude Mercer’s thesis, only to become the target of a deepfake controlled by their film-school secret society.

Sports-data prodigy Paloma Reyes becomes the target of football captain Knox Whitaker’s campus bet, then uncovers boosters wagering on injured players’ survival.