An orphanage headmistress is snatched saving a child from a dragon, and the world believes her dead and eaten. For centuries, Gascony's top predators have treated humankind as easy prey. But, Isodore's misery has only begun. On a lonely ledge high in the Pyrénées, where even the famed dragon slayers won't go, she comes to terms with the nature of dragons, her fate in her captor's hands, and she won dark secret. A child survivor of dragon's wrath, she has relied on her wits to stay alive. But it's compassion that gives that life meaning: awakening a warrior's idealism, breaching lass divisions, and sustaining love for an outcast. On Dragon's Ridge, Isodore's ordeal brings the two virtues into conflict. She placates her captor to plot her escape, unaware that the plan will cost her a part of herself she can never get back.
