Season of the Dragon

Book 2, The Spring Dragon, releases March 1, 2025!

From award-winning author Natalie Wright, a sumptuous world of mages and rogues, dragons and dragomancers, mystery, myth, and court intrigue.

When a dragon destroys Quen’s village, she joins the dragon hunt but soon discovers SHE is the hunted.

Quen works for her father, tanning hides and waiting for her tides to turn. Everyone she grew up with has already committed to a herdclan. But Quen was born cursed with a second, shadow soul. Sensing her oddity, animals run from Quen, making her unsuitable for binding to a herdclan. On the cusp of her twentieth year, Quen is at risk of becoming pesha—no one.

Quen’s life is forever changed when a dragon burns her village and kills loved ones. Fueled by a quest for vengeance, Quen joins vigilantes hunting the dragon. She finds kinship and a chance for love, but Quen will lose it all if anyone discovers her secret. For within Quen beats a second heart, and only one of her souls will survive this Season of the Dragon.

Can Quen overcome her curse and unite her warring souls? Or will her shadow soul consume her and everyone she loves?

The fate of her homeland and everyone she loves hangs in the balance.

Praise for Season of the Dragon:

Publisher’s Weekly’s BookLife, Editor’s PickAn Ingram Top 10 Epic Fantasy, 2023Readers’ Favorite Awards, Medalist in Epic Fantasy, 2023

“Bravura worldbuilding. Dazzling epic fantasy with compelling characters, urgent storytelling, and a welcome sense of clarity… The stakes are high, the prose crisp, and the adventure thrilling as Wright rewards and upends reader expectations, building to an epic ending that satisfies as it sets up for more adventure.”—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY’S BOOKLIFE REVIEWS, Editor’s Pick“Wright presents a setting that is complex and intricate, with layers of worldbuilding details that coalesce into a fictional civilization that’s exciting to discover. An engaging beginning to a promising fantasy series.”—KIRKUS“[Readers] looking for fantasy series titles that open with a bang of psychological and political allure will find that few can equal the force of Season of the Dragon.” —MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer“Epic in scale and packed to the brim with action, drama, and romance, Season of the Dragon is just the fantasy saga you’ve been waiting for.”—Pikasho Deka for Readers’ Favorite Reviews (5 Stars)

“There are some books you wish you could read forever. Season of the Dragon is one of them.”—INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW, Alexandria Ducksworth

“If Wright, like her character, carries a phantom soul, I reckon hers is some combination of Robert Jordan and Rebecca Roanhorse.”—Robyn Dabney, Author of The Ascenditure