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 15

Thorat’s thoughts dragged back to that moment in the night when he’d woken to find Eppie kissing him and pulling him closer. He’d admired the men and women who had taught him too, and that admiration was not so different from desire, but he simply hadn’t noticed what lay ...








Chapter 15

Thorat’s thoughts dragged back to that moment in the night when he’d woken to find Eppie kissing him and pulling him closer. He’d admired the men and women who had taught him too, and that admiration was not so different from desire, but he simply hadn’t noticed what lay ...