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Heart Of Hindra:
The army has been waiting in the desert for months. The fleet is at anchor. And Emperor Madrid has chosen his moment.
Seraphina left Hindra as a treasure-hunter's daughter, still wearing the helmet she pulled from a buried army on the day her purple dragon dropped out of the sky. She returns to find the largest military encampment in Gaia's history spread across the flat plateau of her home province — tent lines stretching to the horizon, engineered dragons darkening the sky, and the black fleet at anchor in the southern bay, waiting for the weather window that comes once a year.
Madrid is not occupying Hindra. He is launching from it.
She has three weeks before the wind opens. Three weeks to disrupt an army she cannot destroy, rescue the people who need saving, and find the one being in the world who can actually end this — a fire elemental living in a volcanic vent beneath the desert, who the prophecy calls the only one born of the elements who can defeat him, and who has no interest in being anyone's weapon.
Meanwhile, Sargon — her brother, the boy who once crowed over a bronze battle standard in the sand beside her — has been navigating Madrid's army across the dune cycles for fifteen years. He knows every hollow beneath the plateau. He has never been asked the right questions. Until now.
With Marion restored to full power, rescue operations finally begin — and the heartbearers who have been lost the longest start coming home. But coming home is not the same as coming back. Some wounds are too deep for even a healing dragon's breath.
As the fleet prepares to sail and the army moves toward the coast, the heartbearers of Gaia face a truth fifteen years in the every province they freed, every barrier they destroyed, every choice they made at terrible cost was not the war. It was the preparation for one.
The war is about to cross the sea.
Heart of Hindra is the tenth book in The Dragon Saga — the epic fantasy series where every bond is a choice, every choice has a price, and the price of freedom is always paid in full.
Seraphina left Hindra as a treasure-hunter's daughter, still wearing the helmet she pulled from a buried army on the day her purple dragon dropped out of the sky. She returns to find the largest military encampment in Gaia's history spread across the flat plateau of her home province — tent lines stretching to the horizon, engineered dragons darkening the sky, and the black fleet at anchor in the southern bay, waiting for the weather window that comes once a year.
Madrid is not occupying Hindra. He is launching from it.
She has three weeks before the wind opens. Three weeks to disrupt an army she cannot destroy, rescue the people who need saving, and find the one being in the world who can actually end this — a fire elemental living in a volcanic vent beneath the desert, who the prophecy calls the only one born of the elements who can defeat him, and who has no interest in being anyone's weapon.
Meanwhile, Sargon — her brother, the boy who once crowed over a bronze battle standard in the sand beside her — has been navigating Madrid's army across the dune cycles for fifteen years. He knows every hollow beneath the plateau. He has never been asked the right questions. Until now.
With Marion restored to full power, rescue operations finally begin — and the heartbearers who have been lost the longest start coming home. But coming home is not the same as coming back. Some wounds are too deep for even a healing dragon's breath.
As the fleet prepares to sail and the army moves toward the coast, the heartbearers of Gaia face a truth fifteen years in the every province they freed, every barrier they destroyed, every choice they made at terrible cost was not the war. It was the preparation for one.
The war is about to cross the sea.
Heart of Hindra is the tenth book in The Dragon Saga — the epic fantasy series where every bond is a choice, every choice has a price, and the price of freedom is always paid in full.
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2026
About the author
Susan Faw
56 books209 followersA lover of unusual worlds, Susan is a masked crusader for the fantastical world. Championing mythical rights, she quells uprisings and battles infidels who would slay the lifeblood of her pen. It’s all in a night’s work, for this whirlwind writer. Welcome to the quest.
Dante Rossetti Grand Prize awarded for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2016, Chanticleer Reviews, for Seer of Souls.
First in Category, Dante Rossetti, Best Young Adult Mythology, 2016, Chanticleer Reviews, for Seer of Souls.
First in Category, Dante Rossetti , 2017 Chanticleer Reviews, for Soul Sanctuary
Find out how it all began! You can download the prequel novella to the series for free!
Visit susanfaw.com to download your copy, or copy and paste this link: http://susanfaw.com/
Dante Rossetti Grand Prize awarded for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2016, Chanticleer Reviews, for Seer of Souls.
First in Category, Dante Rossetti, Best Young Adult Mythology, 2016, Chanticleer Reviews, for Seer of Souls.
First in Category, Dante Rossetti , 2017 Chanticleer Reviews, for Soul Sanctuary
Find out how it all began! You can download the prequel novella to the series for free!
Visit susanfaw.com to download your copy, or copy and paste this link: http://susanfaw.com/
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August 31, 2026
Wow this book is so fraught with tension and reaches such a crescendo that I was sure this was going to be the final book, however even though Madrid is facing his end, it is not in this book. Seraphina had left Hindra, her desert home, when she came of age and as a chosen heartbearer was picked up by her dragon and djinn to form her triad and travel to Jintessa. On the other hand her twin sibling Sargon was picked up a few weeks later to be taken to the Citadel to serve Emperor Madrid. Seraphine returns to the desert to find a whole army on the sands, with numerous ships waiting to sail across the water. She realises that what they had all thought was the war they had been fighting for the last fifteen years was just a preliminary, and that the war Madrid was planning was the one on Jintessa itself. She would do everything in her power to stop him, and to try to find her beloved twin Sargon, who was the star reader for Madrid, his navigator, bound not to lie to him, however unless questioned directly he gave no information. In this books we see many of the previous characters returning thinking they were coming home when in fact they were facing yet more ordeals. I really loved this book, the realistic descriptions of the desert and the shifting of the sand dunes and the people hiding for years beneath the sand. I cannot wait to read book 11 of this very exciting series as I am dying to see the end of Madrid and his cruel ways. In this book I manage to even feel sorry for Opaleye, his dragon, who is one of the longest suffering and enslaved creatures of this evil djinn!
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