The Hunter's Fall

Blake Vendine, mage and bounty hunter, heads into the forbidding Dragonbone Mountains in search of notorious outlaw Wiley Wedlin and the powerful, unknown mage who is controlling the dragons. His search takes him on a journey through unmapped canyons and deserts that stretches his skills, determination, and will to survive to their limits. Realizing that Blake is in over his head, Comfort, Lainie, and Silas set out after him as Comfort struggles with the choice she must make between the man she loves and his quest for justice, and his quarry, the father she's been searching for for years. In the meantime, the dragons' master enters into an alliance with hostile A'ayimat and makes an impossible, ruinous demand of the Wildings settlers. With the few other mages living in the Wildings, Garis, Vera, and Kessie join the fight to protect the settlers. But even with Blake risking his life to find and capture the dragon master, will a handful of mages and friendly A'ayimat and the non-magical settlers be enough to win a fight against dragons and the mage who is powerful enough to command them?