Pureblood sorcer-
e_+!ss Grace forces)[ $?her mute ha: lf-s\ $
ist ?[.er Liya _%to
 ma[/
r%ry th[).e Dragon Go,d Naz in-: h.;er$(_?: plac,e. Afte r formi_(ng a]` % b).$lo%od bond with Naz, Li
ya is hunted +by G
rac
e's a?(]ssas`*sins. She %*-f;+alls from a clif_]@f , f!?inds !r
efu`*ge in a monastery `, a$:n :d (@
^ sec_retl:;?y gives ;=_birth to d^ragon @+;
twins. She -`hides -fo[$r,. 
seven ye[)ars.
Grace di*#s,covers Liya alive, [ abduct?]s her family, and tortures he\+]=r. Naz se*nses the shattered,? blood bo =;nd, ,?tra[!^/nsform*[_s in[%\to a black dragon, and\ saves them.^.
In :Dra g(@#`onfl _ame City,%\* Grace acc@=uses Li
]ya o`f*:. polluting the royal bloodli-$/@ne. Bu``t, the D(
r:agon Blood :^ # Stone--`= *[proves the tw!!\i-*ns^. c#?arr[* y: true royal b]:lood. (= Grace i)s sent%;;enced to  *:de(-ath.
The s*#+even tr%/ibes demand @,!Liy+!*./a under-/$g$^o t;;rials \ ;+_in /the Valley o%[f ^Drago%.]n's Rest *#. Accompanie
, d by Na z and he_r
/ children, Li\ya bra.!?v`es poison swamps, mol \*ten :_la*va, ill;usions, and Soul Fire
`. Her unbrea(% kab,le heart earns t@he +=ancie nt _^Dragon;(@ ].,`!Gods]+' approval(-. A gold`en(#%] mark appears on her fo^reh$ead/ —she asc ends a`%!s the o
ne true Dr$ agon Queen.