This book introduces the dragon Archan, who returns in a larger role in Edwards' Stone trilogy.

[1] The survivors from Dragoncharm have established a new dragon community on the island chain of Haven.

Fortune and his allies battle to prevent the community being split apart by the renegade Hesper.

Brace and Cumber reach an ancient citadel built by the basilisks and inhabited by a blind ex-charmed dragon called Archan.

The citadel's towers are mobile in time, constantly fading in and out of past, present and future.

A giant river of charm forms in the sky, flowing to the north pole, which the dragons call the Crest of the World.

The surviving dragons wonder if Wyrm represents what the future holds for their species, which is hovering on the brink of extinction.