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. Now Abagail is deep in a forest ruled by darklings, miles from safety, and weeks from the only person who can teach her to control the polluted magic raging through her body. With danger around every corner and darklings attacking at every turn, will Abagail survive long enough to reach her aunt? Or will the plague finally take control of Abagail and destroy her?

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...

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...