I’m unendingly grateful to Owen Richardson, who has stunned me with his cover illustrations a grand total of fourteen times over the past decade. Your iconic art has brought warm feelings to readers for years, and will continue to do so for years to come. When readers think back to the world of Artimé and the joy it brought them, they will picture your covers in their minds.

To Kilian McMann, who has provided various forms of art for The Unwanteds and Unwanteds Quests—posters, illustrations, pins, postcards, and art for my presentations—I’m so glad to have worked with you from the moment the idea for The Unwanteds began to form. Your dedication to your craft since then has made this journey in Artimé feel so much more special, and it has made my belief in the value of the arts that much stronger. I’m also extremely proud of you.

As always, I’m enormously thankful for my agent, Michael Bourret. Twenty-five books and counting, thanks to you. You’re simply the best.

And huge thanks to my readers. Some of you are just finding this series, others shuffled through the gate into Artimé with the debut of The Unwanteds, and still others picked it up somewhere in between. I hope you see yourself in these books, and I can’t wait for everyone to discover how it all ends in book seven.

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Dragon Fury Book 7	Dragon Captives Book 1
Dragon Bones Book 2	Dragon Ghosts Book 3

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Island of Dragons	Island of Graves

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Author photograph © 2015 by Ryan Nicholson Photography

Lisa McMann lives in Sacramento, California. She is married to fellow writer and musician Matt McMann, and they have two adult children. Her son is an artist named Kilian McMann and her daughter is an actor, Kennedy McMann. Lisa is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen books for young adults and children. So far she has written in genres including paranormal, realistic, dystopian, and fantasy. Some of her most well-known books are the Unwanteds series for middle-grade readers and the Wake trilogy for young adults. Check out Lisa’s website at LisaMcMann.com, learn more about the Unwanteds series at UnwantedsSeries.com, and be sure to say hi on Instagram or Twitter (@Lisa_McMann), or Facebook (Facebook.com/McMannFan).

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Simon & Schuster, New York

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Also by Lisa McMann

THE UNWANTEDS SERIES

The Unwanteds

Island of Silence

Island of Fire

Island of Legends

Island of Shipwrecks

Island of Graves

Island of Dragons

THE UNWANTEDS QUESTS SERIES

Dragon Captives

Dragon Bones

Dragon Ghosts

Dragon Curse

Dragon Fire

FOR OLDER READERS:

Don’t Close Your Eyes

Visions

Cryer’s Cross

Dead to You