After a bit of a scuffle with those esteemed folk the pair are offered guest-right and welcomed to stay for the night in a village deep in the woods. The trees here are alive and hostile, allowing no one to pass who is not of the Mauntells. Their dragon mount Akarra is blown off course by the powerful winds of the storm and rather than catching their foe, Aliza and Alistair find themselves forced to land in the Rushless Wood. They need whatever information he has if they are to prevent their kingdom from being destroyed. They know he is now a ghastradi and in league with the powerful, deadly and human hating Tekari. Having been warned of a coming war greater than any the world has ever seen, our intrepid heroes are flying through a blizzard in the hopes of catching the villain Wydrick and keeping him from doing even greater damage to the nation of Arle. All of the world and character building take place in the first two novels, so potential readers will definitely want to begin with Heartstone. Flamebringer is the richly imagined, lushly magical conclusion to the Heartstone trilogy, in which we join Aliza and Alistair almost immediately after the events in Dragonshadow.
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