The darklings come at night carrying their plague of shadows to the nine worlds. They corrupt all they touch and there's no cure except burning in the sacred fires. And Abagail Bauer has been infected with their baneful magic. Finally rescued by the harbingers of light from the legion of darklings, Abagail thinks danger is behind her...she's wrong. As tensions mount between Abagail and her friend, Rorick, a darkness is building in the harbinger settlement of Haven. Darkness that could spell the end for the last bastion of good in the realms: a secret army of darklings determined to destroy...

Cass is a robot with a past she can't remember. What she wants more than anything is to be like humans-an android. To be loved and to feel and to be treated as an equal. Not an automaton like she is. She Finds that in Brandon. He treats Cass like an equal, like a human, and more importantly like a woman. Cass just wants a normal human life like Brandon promises, but as more and more of her memories come flooding back, she learns that she might play a bigger part in the android equal rights movement than she wants. Her future is uncertain. Becoming an android will mean going against her...

In the long desert only the strong survive, but it will take more than strength to survive what's coming.

In the long desert, civilization doesn't run according to any rule, and Wylan Atwater is about to learn that the hard way. Her first circuit as a member of the dragon guard is a simple one--get a feel for the land, find any survivors of the dragon plague that she can, and bring them back to the ramshackle haven of Darubai. But a sandstorm and magic wielding drakes destroy those plans. Injured, far from safety, and without the use of her ability to shift into a wyvern, Wylan isn't sure...