02414cam a2200349 i 4500 10584709 CaAEU 20251117132408.0 230109t20242023enkb e 000 1 eng d 9780349437019 (paperback) on1429610898 AU@ eng rda AU@ OCLCO OCLCQ ORU UKBUR OCLCO PS3625.A7384 F68 2024 Yarros, Rebecca author. 24950 Fourth wing / Rebecca Yarros. 4th wing London : Piatkus, 2024. ©2023. 561 pages : maps ; 20 cm. The Empyrean ; 1 First published in 2023. Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . . Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away . . . because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Alliances will be forged. Lives will be lost. Traitors will become allies . . . or even lovers. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die. Dragons Fiction. Imaginary wars and battles Fiction 24133 Secrecy Fiction. 25722 Mothers and daughters Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Magic Fiction. 24059 Fantasy fiction 22510 Yarros, Rebecca, Empyrean ; 1. lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-03-21 0 P-EN YAR B05881 2025-03-21 1 2025-03-21 1 4552 4552