Part of Michelle Knudsen?s exciting fantasy trilogy ? in a luminous paperback edition Meg will soon be named the princess-heir of Trelian, but her connection to her dragon, Jakl, is making her parents? subjects uneasy. Calen is about to receive his first 1 mage?s mark, but the ceremony is disrupted by a mysterious magical attack. Will the people of Trelian accept a dragon princess as their future queen? Will Calen be able to forestall the ominous prophecies that predict a terrifying new danger?