Onyx Storm (The Empyrean)

There was a time when all Violet Sorrengail had to worry about was surviving. Make it across the parapet. Survive training. To try not to get roasted alive by a dragon. That was then. Now it’s not enough that Violet survived Threshing. Or that she sits astride the scales of the most terrifying creature imaginable, with the overwhelming expanse of wings keeping her aloft. Because her world now sits on the precipice of annihilation. The Aretian wards are failing…and with them, hope. Their enemies are far more powerful than anyone knows—and one of them has marked Violet with a power as terrifying as her own. With enemies circling Navarre on tainted wings, Violet knows they have everything to lose. Friends. Family. Home. And Xaden. Him most of all. Aretia needs an army. It needs power. And it needs the one thing Violet, more than any other rider, knows how to find—the truth. Every dark, cryptic, and damned scrap of it. The time for “surviving” is done. And Violet will have to choose what—or rather, who—she’s always been: Violence.