RED SKIES FALLING

When Red Skies Falling begins, Brysen is still back in the villages, trying to catch his lost hawk, Shara. Though she eludes him, the trapping business has never been better as huge migrations of birds cross the lowlands, up the foothills, and over the mountains into the unknown wastes on the other side, fleeing the advance of the Kartami kite warriors. People are fleeing on the ground too, and Brysen intervenes on behalf of the refugees, defying his own people. Haunted by an augur's prophecy, he vows to lead the refugees through the Kartami siege, to safety with his sister in the Sky Castle. But when the Kartami catch him, he finds himself in a position to continue fleeing with them, or to risk his life as an assassin and end the war. Either choice he makes will cost him: one his destiny, the other his life.

Kylee, in league with a young lord of the Sky Castle who her friends neither like nor trust, finds that there is more to the Ghost Eagles than her trainer is sharing, and the secrets go to the heart of Uztari civilization itself. As she struggles to maintain control in a battle of kite warrior against raptor and to avoid the plots against her life from those who do not trust a speaker of the Hollow Tongue, she begins to uncover a different plan at work, one that will force her to decide where her loyalties lie - with an unjust peace on the ground or righteous war in the sky.

Brysen and Kylee each have a role to play, as the war brings them back together, but on opposite sides. They can protect their world, or they can protect each other, but it might be impossible to do both. The Ghost Eagles have a plan and they're on no one's side but their own. And only one of the twins decides to join them.

Book three in this trilogy is slotted for October 2020.