Of Dragons Born — Mickee Madden

As the onset of war approaches, Elfins, Faers, Gargoyles and Humans flock to Magus Reddak Locc. Only some of the errants oppose his authority in the name of their absent king, Brodin, who Reddak considers a mere nuisance. That is until Britin and Brodin's most guarded secret alters the man he once believed himself to be. Racked with excruciating pain from an incurable poison in his blood, discovering the people he cares about are not who or what they seem, and learning of a centuries-old conspiracy to wipe out his bloodline, physically and mentally breaks the young magus. Reddak not only doesn't have the strength to stand against the sorcerers and their armies, he has lost the willpower to resist the dark foreboding miasma rapidly closing in around him.