Showing results by author "Taran Matharu" in Literature & Fiction

Jai is nothing more than a royal hostage and lowly servant to the empire that slew his family and now rules his people. He has been manservant to the old emperor for most of his life, and only watches on from a distance as the empire grows more powerful – a new alliance is to be formed as the young prince is betrothed to Princess Erica of the Dansk Kingdom – a people from a northern, icy realm.

Jai dreams of being a dragon rider. He dreams of freedom from the Sabine Empire and a world in which he can lead his people, the Kidara, to freedom. But even though he has his dragon, Winter, she is still growing, just as he’s still growing in his own power. And the road to victory is even more fraught than he had hoped. Because even when he finds a tribe on the Great Steppe, they are not his people. They are the outcasts, the Tainted, and he finds that he knows little of the political intricacies that take place in these vast grasslands.

Dank ihrer mächtigen Griffon-Garde sind die Sabiner fast unbesiegbar. Aber nur fast, denn es gibt ein Geschöpf, das noch tödlicher ist als Griffons, und das sind Drachen. Einzig die Barbaren aus dem hohen Norden kennen das Geheimnis, wie man einen Drachen zähmt, und gegen ihre Armee von Drachenreitern haben selbst die Sabiner keine Chance. Deshalb soll Titus, der arrogante Sohn des Kaisers, die schöne Tochter des Barbarenkönigs heiraten. Doch dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse am Hof, und ausgerechnet Jai, ein Sklavenjunge aus der Steppe, kommt einem Komplott Titus' auf die Spur.