The Five Islands of Piana. A land of dragons, ruled over by the Council, a group of five dragons, one from each island, within flight of the Southern Wasteland, a vast, cold continent where no dragons could ever live. Or, at least, that's what they say... Speckle, of Gateway Island, the southernmost island, isn't so sure. She's seen what looks like dragon wings over the Southern Wasteland, but nobody else seems to care. When she meets a dragon from another island, she finds that might not be so true. Fern has stories about attacks on her island orchestrated by dragons like nothing she had ever seen before. What might happen, nobody knows, but, most likely, life on the Islands of Piana will be changed forever.