Far from the frontier are streets full of secrets, schemes, and smug imperials with more power than sense in the fourth book of this fantasy western epic.

In the Tiraan Empire, the days of high adventure have been replaced with commerce, compromise, and a never-ending struggle for power between humans and elves and the guilds and governments that run it all. Behind the facade of civilization, a firestorm is ready to break loose.

On the frontier, however, there is freedom to be had and life to be experienced, especially for a small but fiercely loyal band of raw and reckless students at the University of Last Rock. They have been through great peril together—often of their own doing—and are straining at the bit for more action. But they are about to get more than they bargained for because Professor Tellwyrn has decided to bring them along on a mission to the grand capital of Tiraas for the kind of lesson only the streets can teach.

Meanwhile, in the city of Onkawa, known as the Jewel of the West, something big has touched down, and the entire empire is about to discover the greatest dangers lie not in swords or sorcery but in lies, betrayal, the darkness of an evil heart . . . and a dragon. Because now there is a dragon.

The fourth volume of the genre-blending fantasy epic based on the hit web novel with more than eleven million views—and almost four million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!