"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

With the rise of new leaders, good and evil; the long-awaited birth of the Child of Time, Meridion; the dark plans of assassins and rulers; a confrontation that shakes the relationship of the Three; and a battle to the death between two dragons of unimaginable elemental power, the seeds of chaos are planted for a war that will, by its end, consume half of the world.