num_pages: 673
description: Two young companions Totho and Salma arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor Alvdan is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave the vampiric Uctebri who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium meanwhile Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire's imminent threat to their survival. In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. 
language: English
title: Dragonfly Falling
publisher: Tor Books