The long-awaited, highly anticipated, six heroes: Companion, Scribe, Musician, Spy, Warrior, and Intended have finally arrived in Alithia. Only, no one was expecting them to be quite so young... Winner of the 2016 Literary Classics Gold Book Award for YA Series and recipient of the Literary Classics Seal of Approval Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no real friends, crushing social anxiety, and an indescribable sense of not fitting
Forced into living life as a man, Cayda has to bear the responsiblity of providing for her family and must face grueling training in hopes that she may one day slay a firescale and reap the dragon-slayer's reward. Cayda has spent her entire life training to slay a Fire Scale. Now the time has come to leave her dragon-ravaged village behind, march into the Summer Alps, and reap the rewards of a Champion. But the road between poverty and prosperity is rife with beasts, betraya