With the balance of power dramatically altered within The Circle, Beryl and his friends must chart a new course in unfamiliar circumstances. The black dragons, Onyx and Atramentous, have consolidated their power over everyone.
From a new base of operations and with surprising new allies, Beryl realizes the dragons aren’t the only threat. Mysterious agents from outside The Circle may be manipulating everything for their own reasons.
Beryl hopes to overcome the final dragon rulers and strike at these new enemies at the same time… but with a former ally in desperate danger, he has to throw it all aside and rush to the rescue against a foe he thought already dead, returning once again to where it all Viridia.
Tim Frankovich has been exploring fantastic worlds since third grade, when he cut up a grocery sack and drew a Godzilla-meets-superheroes story. Since then, he's gotten a little bit better at the writing part (not so much with the drawing).
His goal as a writer is to transport readers to another world, make them care deeply about characters in dire situations, and guide them deeper into life itself.
At the moment, he is probably suitably conscious somewhere in Texas with his beloved wife, awesome kids, and a fool of a pup named Pippin.