The Defenders' order is dying, but that's no surprise. They've been in hiding for over a hundred years, and apprentices are getting harder to find – hardly anyone can see the dragons anymore.  Eppie is a successful pickpocket. She keeps her cache – and her ability to see the dragons – well hidden. One day she picks the wrong pocket, and the next thing she knows she’s been brought in to a mysterious secret order of swordsmen and swordswomen. She’s their last apprentice, their last hope. With far too little training, she sets out to help save the dragon Tiada, but if her mentor and the others fall in the battle, who will defend the dragons next time?

The Defenders' Apprentice

Chapter One








Chapter 10

Eppie hated waiting. She stirred the fire into sparks while Thorat went down to the village. At least she was with him, though, not sitting in Anamat waiting for him to come back only to fall into the ambassadress’s alabaster arms. Maybe that was why she’d volunteered to ...








Chapter 10

Eppie hated waiting. She stirred the fire into sparks while Thorat went down to the village. At least she was with him, though, not sitting in Anamat waiting for him to come back only to fall into the ambassadress’s alabaster arms. Maybe that was why she’d volunteered to ...