The Widow's Dawn

At dawn, the dragon the Wing stole forty years ago takes the Marshal out of his own tower, carries him down in front of the entire muster, and sets him on the ground like a piece of evidence.

The Wing wakes to a morning it has no forms for. Its Marshal is a prisoner in his own rooms, held by the flights he commanded. Its sovereign dragons are free, unrostered, and still, under the sentence he spoke over them, Crown property in law. Its deep pens are the coasts open secret. And across nine miles of black water, the pit fires of Osseran are rising, count by count, toward the largest crossing the strait has ever seen.

Captain Nora Fell must roster a Wing whose orders nobody is obliged to believe. Gunnery Captain Dain Aske must decide what his voice is for, after twenty years of speaking firing orders he told himself he never wrote. They have read each others orders for two decades. This autumn, they will have to speak their own.

The Widows Dawn is Book 4 of The Widow Dragon, an explicit dragon rider romantasy of custody, counts, and two officers learning to own their voices. Captain Fell and Captain Askes story closes complete in this book.