Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (The Empyrean #1)

 

She was supposed to spend her life with books.

Instead, she was thrown into a war college for dragon riders.

Violet Sorrengail was never meant to become a dragon rider.

Small, physically fragile, and obsessed with books,

she planned to live a quiet life as a scholar.

But her powerful mother forces her into Basgiath War College

a brutal academy where students train to ride dragons.

And survival is not guaranteed.

Cadets kill each other to advance.

Dragons reject weak riders.

And everyone expects Violet to fail.

Especially Xaden Riorson—

the dangerous, powerful rider whose family has every reason to hate hers.

But Violet quickly discovers something terrifying:

The deadliest secrets at Basgiath

aren’t the dragons.

They’re the lies the kingdom was built on