Recensori in anteprima

In the Skarrian Empire, societal class is determined solely by one factor, a factor which no one, neither emperors nor servants, can control: the Marks on their skin.

Those with Marks are elevated to the highest stations of society where they will never want for anything again. However, those who reach their eighteenth year without developing a Mark are swept up in the Reckoning, where they will be chained and forced to toil away at the emperor's every whim for the rest of their lives.

Ayla Helero is a Markless orphan living in the capitol city of Skarria, and the Reckoning is fast approaching. Voices whisper to her in the night, promising there is truth to the stories of dragons that the empire will do anything to suppress. Will Ayla bow down and capitulate to the evil hands that bind her, or will she listen to the voices, risking everything for the chance of a better tomorrow?

Ayla is listening. She hears the voices. She whispers back.

The Markless will rise.