From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the "terrifically entertaining" (Stephen King) first volume of the Temeraire series, in which the Napeolonic Wars are fought with dragons.   "Enthralling reading—it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini."—Time

Valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future—and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey (October 19, 2021)
• ISBN-13: 978-0593359549