Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros writes about people who are pushed into places they didn't choose and have to work out, fast, who to trust. Her dragon books share a tight, fast-moving feel: a war college, bonds that matter, and secrets that carry real weight. Start with Fourth Wing, where a bookish cadet is forced into the dragon-rider quadrant; if you want the second year, Iron Flame picks up the same characters and pressures.

Feels like longing, love and dread.

Start with Onyx Storm.

Before dragons, Yarros published more than twenty contemporary romances; the Empyrean series, beginning with Fourth Wing, was her first fantasy.

When the danger is no longer outside the walls but inside them.

No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him. Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming…and not everyone can survive its wrath.

Excerpt from Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros 2025. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals