Released by Entangled: Red Tower Books on May 2, 2023, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros opens the Empyrean series with a brutal reversal of expectation: Violet Sorrengail, trained for the scholarly safety of the Scribe Quadrant, is ordered into an elite war college where aspiring riders must bond with dragons or die trying.

Violet’s body does not fit the image of a conventional warrior, and those around her understand vulnerability as invitation. But she enters Basgiath with a far more dangerous advantage than her rivals initially recognize: a mind sharpened by study, survival and the necessity of anticipating every threat before it arrives.

In the Riders Quadrant, Survival Is the First Lesson

Basgiath is a world of lethal training, shifting alliances and dragons whose judgment is immediate and irrevocable. Every trial strips away assumption. Every alliance may be temporary. Amid the dangers stands Xaden Riorson, a commanding wing leader whose history with Violet’s family makes attraction inseparable from distrust.

Yarros places romance inside a landscape of genuine peril, allowing desire, loyalty and ambition to collide under the pressure of war.

A Heroine Nobody Had the Wisdom to Measure Correctly

Fourth Wing draws much of its power from underestimation. Violet is not required to become someone else in order to be formidable; she must discover how to turn the qualities others dismiss into strengths they cannot survive ignoring.

Filled with dragon lore, rivalry, risk and emotional intensity, the novel launches a fantasy world designed for readers who want their heroines intelligent, their romance dangerous and their stakes high enough to scorch the page.

About the Book

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is the first novel in the Empyrean series, following Violet Sorrengail through the deadly Riders Quadrant at Basgiath War College, where dragon bonds, political secrets, survival and desire reshape her fate.

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