What if the old stories are true?

Kael has never known who he is, not really. Raised as an orphan in Shadow Crest, a city in the impoverished southern nation of Grum, he has spent his life in the shadow of a world that does not quite fit him, reading ancient scrolls and dreaming of other worlds—until the night a longsword is driven through his chest and he does not die.

What erupts from the wound is fire. What rises from his skin are scales the color of the deep sea. And what the High Priest of Fireseed, the capital of the realm of New Fireborn, calls him, with barely concealed hunger, is a name out of legend.

Firebringer.

A Dragon of unimaginable power that prophecies say will either save the realm or destroy it.

Meanwhile, the Dragon Lord Neraq-Ta walks free once more, released from five hundred years of imprisonment—and he has not forgotten a single debt.

A young woman named Helixa carries a pendant that has haunted her dreams since childhood and a promise to spill her father's blood upon the stones of the capital.

The realm of New Fireborn is fracturing. As ancient rivalries resurface, Kael and Helixa find themselves drawn into events far larger than either of them ever imagined.

Everyone claims to know the truth. Everyone wants something. And beyond the borders of the known world, something ancient and dangerous is stirring.

The stories are true.

The question is whether New Fireborn will survive them.

After all, Old Fireborn did not.