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When She Reigns

Jodi Meadows
Contents (70)
  1. DEDICATION
  2. THE GREAT ABANDONMENT
  3. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  4. PART ONE
  5. THE HARVEST OF HOPE
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  9. CHAPTER THREE
  10. CHAPTER FOUR
  11. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  12. CHAPTER FIVE
  13. CHAPTER SIX
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN
  15. PART TWO
  16. THE GREATEST CALAMITY
  17. CHAPTER EIGHT
  18. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  19. CHAPTER NINE
  20. CHAPTER TEN
  21. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  22. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  23. CHAPTER TWELVE
  24. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  25. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  26. PART THREE
  27. NO DISHONOR IN FEAR
  28. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  29. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  30. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  31. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  32. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  33. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  34. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  37. PART FOUR
  38. LOVE SURVIVES DEATH
  39. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  40. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  41. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  42. THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS
  43. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  44. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  45. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  46. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  47. PART FIVE
  48. SOMETHING TO BURN
  49. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  50. CHAPTER THIRTY
  51. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  52. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  53. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  54. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  55. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  56. PART SIX
  57. THE DARKEST DAY
  58. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  59. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  60. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  61. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  62. CHAPTER FORTY
  63. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  64. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  65. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  66. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  67. BOOKS BY JODI MEADOWS
  68. BACK AD
  69. COPYRIGHT
  70. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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DEDICATION

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For those seeking hope

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

The Great Abandonment

The Drakontos celestus

Part One: The Harvest of Hope

Chapter One

Chapter Two

The Drakontos celestus

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

The Drakontos celestus

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Part Two: The Greatest Calamity

Chapter Eight

The Drakontos celestus

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

The Drakontos celestus

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Part Three: No Dishonor in Fear

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

The Drakontos celestus

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

The Drakontos celestus

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Part Four: Love Survives Death

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

The Drakontos celestus

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Part Five: Something to Burn

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Part Six: The Darkest Day

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Books by Jodi Meadows

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Copyright

About the Publisher

THE GREAT ABANDONMENT

selections from

the holy books of the Fallen Isles

during the first through fifth years of the Fallen Gods

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When the rains are too much and too little, when the fields turn fallow, when the harvest of hope is small: the Great Abandonment has come.

—The Book of the Daughter

The greatest calamity comes in the night, when the people are not listening.

—The Book of Silence

Love survives death.

—The Book of Love

A true warrior faces the end with strength and honor. However, there is no dishonor in fear.

—The Book of Warriors

Remember: fire cannot exist without something to burn.

—The Book of Destruction

The brightest lights yield the blackest shadows, but even during the darkest day, the shadow soul of the dragon reigns.

—The Book of Shadow

They called me Hopebearer.

Because hope was too heavy a burden for them.

THE DRAKONTOS CELESTUS

THE END OF THE FIRST DRAGON WAS THE BEGINNING of the Great Abandonment.

Millennia ago, six constellations vanished from the sky. Then, fireballs streaked through the night and crashed into the sea with a thunder that rattled the world.

The wounded ocean opened wide, its depths evaporating and scattering into the sky.

Blazing debris rained from shattered heavens, and all across Noore, the air ignited and whipped into firestorms that burned until there was nothing but ash. Desperate people took shelter in caves and stone houses, but for many, it was too late. The fires had won.

And in the middle of the ocean—

As sister moons eclipsed the sun—

From the molten rock of nascent lands—

The first dragon erupted, star-scaled and crackling with divinity. A child of Fallen Gods: fire and death and sky incarnate.

SOON AFTER, THE Great Abandonment began.