When Commander Matilda Stormshield of the Dragoons swore an oath to protect Valoria, she never imagined the cost. Straad, charismatic, ruthless, and armed with a blade that drinks Eternal, has risen with the Nine to tear open the Shadowed Vale, stealing names, power, and the fragile peace of the realm. After a devastating ambush on the Bleaks and the loss of those she loved, Matilda must choose between duty and the hunger for vengeance. Joined by the quiet, relentless ranger Rowen and the fierce sorcerer, Mira, Matilda pursues Straad across frozen wastes and into a seam of the world where ritual and ruin meet. As alliances fray and the city of Valoria turns its face, Matilda is forced to reckon with what a vow truly demands, and what she is willing to give. In a final, brutal reckoning beneath the Vale's black breath, love and sacrifice collide with ambition and blood, and the ledger of names is closed in fire. A novel of honor and loss, Dragoon is a hard-bitten epic about the price of promises, the weight of leadership, and the thin line between justice and ruin.