RISE OF THE DRAGON MOON

A middle-grade fantasy novel by debut author, Gabrielle Byrne, which will delight readers of Icefall and The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

Princess Toli may be heir to the throne, but she longs to be a erce hunter and warrior. Alone in a frozen world, her queendom is at the mercy of the dragons that killed her father, and Toli is certain it's only a ma er of time before they come back to destroy what's left of her family. When the dragons rise and seize her mother, Toli will do anything to save her?even trust a young dragon who may be the only key to the Queen's release. With her sister and best friend at her side, Toli makes the treacherous journey across the vast ice barrens to Dragon Mountain, where long-held secrets await. Bear-cats are on their trail, and dragons stalk them, but the greatest danger might be a mystery buried in Toli's past. Gabrielle Byrne studied opera in Philadelphia, literature in Scotland, and marine biology in the Paci c Northwest. You can often nd her shing strange cri ers out of the Salish sea with her husband and two daughters in Olympia, Washington.