Sky Dragons

From the New York Times bestselling mother-and-son team of Anne McCaffreyand Todd McCaffrey comes the final installment in the riveting Pern saga thatbegan with Todd's solo novel, Dragonsblood.Now, with all of Pern imperiled by the aftereffects of a plague that killedscores of dragons and left the planet helpless against the fall of deadlyThread, the only hope for the future lies in the past.

There, on an unexplored island, a group of dragonriders led by Xhinna, a braveyoung woman who rides the blue dragon Tazith, must battle lethal Merows andvoracious tunnel-snakes to build a safe home for themselves and the dragons,whose offspring will one day-if they survive-replenish Pern's decimated dragonpopulation. But as the first female rider of a blue dragon, and the firstfemale Weyrleader in the history of Pern, Xhinna faces an uphill battle inwinning the respect and loyalty of her peers . . . especially after anunforeseen tragedy leaves the struggling colony reeling from a shattering loss.

Amid the grieving, one girl, Jirana, blessed-or cursed-with the ability toforesee potential futures, will help Xhinna find a way forward. The answer liesin time . . . or, rather, in timingit: the awesome ability of the dragons to travel through time itself.But that power comes with risks, and by venturing further into the past, Xhinnamay be jeopardizing the very future she has sworn to save.

Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award-winningauthor of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern novels, is one of sciencefiction's most popular authors. She lives in a house of her own design,Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Todd McCaffrey is the bestsellingauthor of the Pern novel Dragonsbloodand the co-author, with his mother, Anne McCaffrey, of Dragon's Kin, Dragon's Fire, and Dragon Harper. A computer engineer, he currently lives in LosAngeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the epic of the Dragonriders of Pern,®he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and itsdragons.

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