NOTE TO READERS: This breathtaking special edition is only available for a limited time and while quantities last. The year s biggest book sensation and #1 New York Times bestseller returns in this completely jaw-dropping special edition featuring: - a stunning revamped cover - gorgeous new endpapers - black sprayed edges ...plus two bonus chapters from Xaden s point of view! 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. Friends enemies lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda--because once you enter there are only two ways out: graduate or die. Smart-ass. Bad-ass. Kick-ass. One helluva ride! --Tracy Wolff #1 New York Times bestselling author Suspenseful sexy and with incredibly entertaining storytelling... ―Booklist starred review Readers will be spellbound and eager for more. --Publishers Weekly starred review The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Fourth Wing Book #2 Iron Flame