Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles [Paperback]

“Robin Hobb is one of our very best fantasy writers.”
New York Timesbestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

WithDragon Keeper, Robin Hobb, critically acclaimed,New York Timesbestselling “master fantasist” (Baltimore Sun), begins a breathtaking  new series about the resurgence of dragons in a world that both needs and fears them—the world Hobb’s readers most recently visited in her immensely popular “Tawny Man” trilogy. Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles,Dragon Keeperis yet another magnificent adventure from the author of  The Soldier Son and Farseer Trilogies, confirming theContra Costa Timesof California’s assessment of Hobb as “one of the most important writers in 21st century fantasy.”

Too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities stave off an invasion of their enemies. The Traders have forgotten their promises, weary of the labor and expense of tending earthbound dragons who were hatched weak and deformed. If neglected, the creatures will rampage—or die—so itis decreed that they must move farther upriver toward Kelsingra, the mythical homeland whose location is locked deep within the dragons’ uncertain ancestral memories.

Thymara, an unschooled forest girl, and Alise, wife of an unloving and wealthy Trader, are among the disparate group entrusted with escorting the dragons to their new home. And on an extraordinary odyssey with no promise of return, many lessons will be learned—as dragons and tenders alike experience hardships, betrayals...and joys beyond their wildest imaginings.