Life in the village of Pigbone is boring until an aspiring magician and his talking toad come to town and ask Edward to help them slay the Dragon of Doom.

"Thousands of years ago, the god Kur created the first race, the wreth, who were beautiful and powerful in magic. He commanded them to destroy Ossus, the dragon at the heart of the world. for this task, the wreth needed servants, slaves, and soldiers, so they created a lesser race of their own - the humans - who fought and died at their side. The land was devastated by their magical warfare, and the wreths in time exterminated each other. Now, millennia...

"Naomi Novik's beloved series returns, with Capt. Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again taking to the air against the broadsides of Napoleon's forces and the friendly--and sometimes not-so-friendly--fire of British soldiers and politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason. For Laurence and Temeraire, put out to pasture in Australia, it seems their part in the war has come to an end just...

A mystical woman named Mina overruns the countryside with her army of fierce knights, and the great dragon Overlord Beryl devastates the population of her own realm. The elves of Qualinesti must choose between exile and death by dragon.

Wiglaf is off to Dragon Slayers' Academy and in for a first day of school he will never forget.

As Entreri and Jarlaxle journey through the monster-infested Bloodstone Lands, Jarlaxle's ambitions endanger them both, and Entreri confronts a difficult choice between friendship and survival when they confront a fierce paladin king.

When NASA and Doomsday Dan confirm Auntie Catherine's prediction of an approaching asteroid, Charlotte "Charlie" Gale turns to her supernaturally complicated family for help and soon discovers that the asteroid is the least of her problems.

Xhinna, the first female Weyrleader, and her group of young dragonriders struggle to rebuild the decimated dragon population and protect the world from a deadly alien spore by collecting dragon eggs and protecting baby dragons from predators and saboteurs.

Tavore Paran struggles to hold her army together in order to combat a fearsome alien force, while the gods threaten to once again unleash dragons to destroy the world.