"The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but the dangers of the unsettled times come raging to her doorstep. Kateiko is left with no choice but to battle the forces that seek to open a rift between the worlds. Leading an unlikely alliance that includes her new love, Airedain,...

Shoshi, Moshe, and their mother expected a better welcome when they arrived in New York, but life in their new home on the Lower East Side proves to be more challenging than they anticipated, and Snigger, the family's pet dragon, is determined to help them succeed in America.