The Broken Dragon

This brand-new omnibus is the second in a series collecting Irene Radford's acclaimed Dragon novels.

Volume I includes the complete trilogy of The Dragon Nimbus:

The Glass Dragon, The Perfect Princess, and The Lonliest Magician

Volume II includes the first two novels in The Dragon Nimbus History quartet:

The Dragon's Touchstone and The Last Battlemage

Volume III includes the last two novels in The Dragon Nimbus History quartet:

The Renegade Dragon and The Wizard's Treasure

The Dragon's Touchstone:

Three hundred years before the time of The Glass Dragon, Coronnan is a kingdom at war with itself, magic is wild, and magicians uncontrolled, each working separately for his own goal. At the height of this age of chaos, the dragons decide to intervene, making their presence known to the mortals through the healer Myrilandel.

The Last Battlemage:

Nimbulan, the last Battlemage and the founder of the school for Communal Magic, is seeking to create a permanent protection for the kingdom of Coronnan, a spell-crafted border to keep enemies out. His search for the key to this magic leads him to terrifying discovery—the dragons, the guardians of magics, are in terrible danger.

Want more Dragon novels? Look for The Star Gods trilogy and the new Children of the Dragon Nimbus series!

A letter from the author, Irene Radford:

Welcome to the world where dragons are real and magic works. If you are new to the Dragon Nimbus, pull up a chair and join us as we revel in tales that have touched my heart more than anything else I've written under any pen name. If you are returning after an absence, I am very happy to have you back.

This is a world that began with a Christmas gift of a blown-glass dragon. The dragon sat proudly on the knick-knack shelf for several months, loved and admired, reluctantly dusted, and totally inert. Then one night at dinner, my son remarked, "You know, Mom, I think dragons are born all dark, like that little pewter dragon, then they get more silvery as they grow up until they are as clear as glass." The dragon came to life for me.

Out of that chance remark came first one book, then three, five, seven, and finally ten. I built a career on these books and loved every minute of the process. These characters still live in my mind many years after they jumped into their stories and dragged me along with them.

Many thanks to DAW Books and my editor Sheila Gilbert for reviving The Dragon Nimbus a lucky thirteen years after they first debuted.

With these omnibus volumes, you can read about the dragons with crystal fur that directs your eye elsewhere yet defies you to look anywhere else. Wonderful dragons full of wit and wisdom. Magic abounds. Magicians and mundanes alike learn about their world and special life lessons as they explore dragon lore past and present. The books will be presented in the order in which they were written, and the order that makes the most sense of the entwined tales.

So, sit back and enjoy with me. And may reading take you soaring with Dragons.

"High fantasy...rousing adventure." —Library Journal)

"An engaging political fantasy." —Midwest Review

"Radford's considerable gifts as a mesmerizing storyteller shine with undeniable luster." —RT Book Reviews

"A rousing adventure of magic and treachery." —Library Journal

"Plenty of popular elements: an intelligent cat, an enchanted wolf, a redheaded witch, a missing prince, the apprentice mage with misunderstood powers, and, of course, dragons." —Locus

"A big, adventurous, satisfying climax to the trilogy by one of the more interesting new voices working ith the traditional quest story." —Science Fiction Chronicle

"This action-packed plot makes for engaged and thoughtful reading." —Kliatt

Continuing the tale that began in The Hidden Dragon, this is the story of three Terran brothers who discover a fascinating world where dragons are real-and worshiped as gods.

Three brothers take shelter on a pretechnological world where dragons are worshiped as gods. When the off-world forces they have fled track them down, they must find a way to save the world they've made their own.

But the Pixies are not imaginary at all, and Ten Acre Woods is their home. Now, the woods are in danger, and if it falls, the Pixies too will die. Only Thistle Down, exiled from her tribe and trapped inside a mortal woman's body, can save her people-as long as she can convince Dusty Carrick to help her before it's too late.

The Renegade Dragon continues the tale of Coronnan's early history. With the Great Wars of Disruption over, and dragon magic now the only legal form of magic, the kingdom faces devastating new threats from a seemingly unstoppable plague to a clash of magic, and encroachment by off-world technology. The Wizard's Treasure forms the link between the early days of Coronnan and the present time as a spell set centuries ago catches both friends and foes of the kingdom in its enchantment.

Skene Falls, Oregon, was a typical small town where everyone knew everyone else's business. But even small towns have their secrets—sometimes magical ones. Skene Falls was not only home to Desdemona and Benedict Carrick and their parents, it was also the dwelling place of the Pixies. When Thistle Down was exiled from Pixie and stranded in a human body, it marked the beginning of a campaign that would prove dangerous to all. Could Thistle, her human friends, and one Pixie named Chicory avert disaster?

Twin sisters Lillian and Valeria have never felt complete without one another. Full of life and energy, Lily has an affinity with plants and their healing properties, but has no magical talent. Val has an unmatchable talent and, like her brother Glenndon, an imagination to make her magic work in unusual ways. But magic has physical costs, and Val is frail of body. She needs to find solutions to magical problems without using her magic.

As part of their training, they are assigned to assist new female mentors. Along the way, they meet other magic users also struggling with severe weaknesses. But before they can reach their destination and learn how to best offer magical aid, their caravan is overtaken by a dangerous magical storm, and the two sisters are separated. The storm comes from a rogue magician, bent on revenge. He threatens to drown all of Coronnan in a mammoth tidal wave.

Unless the sisters can unite their eclectic group of magic users—and can all overcome their individual weaknesses—this rogue mage could prove the end of Coronnan.

Together the sisters embark on a journey to solve Val's magical problem, and along the way to meet their mentors, the girls encounter several other magic users also struggling with severe weaknesses. However, before they can reach their destination, their caravan is overtaken by a dangerous magical storm, conjured by a rogue magician bent on revenge

In the storm the sisters are separated, and unless they can unite this eclectic group of magic users—who must all overcome their individual weaknesses— and find each other again, this rogue mage could prove the end of Coronnan.

Even as attacks come from unexpected sources, Jaylor is forced to send his twin daughters on their journeymen missions, escorting two noble ladies to their far-distant homes. Though Lillian and Valeria have never felt complete without one another, they will soon have to travel separate pathways to see their ladies home. Lily is robust and has an affinity with plants and their healing properties but no recognized magical ability. Val has an unmatchable talent and like Glenndon the imagination to work magic in unusual ways. But using magic costs the spell-thrower physically and Val is frail; she needs to find solutions to problems without drawing too heavily on her talent. 

Caught in a vast spell-created storm that spreads chaos from the heart of Coronnan City to the caravans the girls are traveling with, can all the scattered children of Jaylor and Brevelan find the means to save both the kingdom and their family?