From the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author, Rebecca Yarros, comes the thrilling sequel to the number one global bestselling phenomenon Fourth Wing . . . ---She survived her first year at Basgiath War College . . . but the danger is only beginning.Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves.Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her wits, and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.But a determination to survive won't be enough this year.Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end. Reviews for Fourth Wing 'You know when you finish a book, and it leaves an ache in your chest because it was so good, and now it's over? Yeah, that's exactly how I feel' READER REVIEW'This book had me in an absolute CHOKEHOLD!' READER REVIEW'A MILLION STARS!!!!!!!!! Everything about this book was incredible' READER REVIEW'I didn't sleep, I didn't eat, and when I finished, I had the overwhelming urge to just start it all over again' READER REVIEW'FIVE. FREAKING. STARS. There is no universe where I could give this book any less of a rating' READER REVIEW'This is 100% in my top 3 books I have ever read' READER REVIEW'Fourth Wing hooked me on the first page and did not let go' DANIELLE L. JENSEN, author of THE BRIDGE KINGDOM'Fourth Wing is dazzling' NALINI SINGH 'A wild, sexy, rollercoaster of a ride' MARY E. PEARSON'Utterly immersive, fiercely romantic, and unforgivably addictive' LYNETTE NONIOTHER BOOKS IN THE EMPYREAN SERIES- FOURTH WING- IRON FLAME.