Description
Moniquill Blackgoose is an enrolled member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, and a lineal descendant of Ousamequin Massasoit.
A young Indigenous woman and her dragon fight for the independence of their homeland in the second book of the epic series that began with To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, “an early contender for the best fantasy novel of 2023…one of those books that you have to thrust into the hands of everyone you know, just so you’ll have people to talk about it with.” (Washington Post)
Anequs has not only survived her first year at Kuiper’s Academy but exceeded all of her professors’s—admittedly low—expectations and passed all her courses with honors. Now, she and her dragon Kasaqua are headed home for the summer, along with Theod, the only other Native student at the Academy.
But what should have been a relaxing summer takes a darker turn. Thanks to Anequs’s noteriety, there is an Anglish presence on Masquapaug for the first time ever: a presence which Anequs hates. Anequs will always fight for what she believes in, however, and what she believes in now is her people’s right to self-govern and to continue to live their lives as they have for generations, without the restrictive yoke of Anglish rules and the repressed sensibilities of Anglish social customs. And fight she will—even if it means lighting a spark which may flare into civil war.