Description

For Astrid, a blacksmith who makes swords for dragonslayers, the introduction of the gemstone from her body sets in-motion a series of events that threaten to ruin her life. Her joy is shattered when her lover—the dragonslayer—disappears without a track, and the life span that she enjoys and understands implodes without warning.Astrid lives in an environment of shapeshifters whose ideas have the ability to alter not just themselves-but others. Anything Astrid knows to be correct is known as into question when she learns the truth about her past and the mystical household that she was divided as a child.Reality turns inside-out as Astrid progressively learns the truth about the folks she enjoys in addition to these she disdains. With the destiny of dragons, spirits, and slaves in foreign countries relaxing on her shoulders, Astrid confronts the process of determining who she's and how she'll operate inside her own skin.