Red Queen Ascendant

The battle for Dragonville is over and life ought to ‎be getting back to normal for Aralaiah. But, to her ‎chagrin, that isn’t happening. ‎

A rumour has been spreading that Red Queen was ‎killed in the battle. Morale is tumbling and the people ‎of Dracos are in despair. Trying to tell them that she’s ‎still alive hasn’t worked. People are convinced that the ‎authorities are lying to them, trying to conceal the fact ‎of Red Queen’s death in an effort to restore morale.‎

The only choice is for Aralaiah and Red Queen to ‎go out there and show them Red Queen alive and ‎kicking. So the two of them are off on a charm ‎offensive, visiting the outlying communities and army ‎camps of Dracos to do just that. ‎

The rumours have even reached as far as the army ‎camps in the Lowlands. Those are the camps on the ‎front line of the war and the ones where morale is the ‎most crucial so, risky as it is, Aralaiah and Red Queen ‎are forced to venture right down to within sight of the ‎enemy.‎

However, their mission is cut short when several ‎of the camps, including the one where they are, are ‎attacked. The Demorsans have a diabolical new ‎weapon, a weapon that can kill dragons without the ‎Demorsans ever having to get close enough to allow ‎the dragons to strike back. ‎

While the experts of Dracos scramble for answers ‎to this new threat, Red Queen announces that as soon ‎as they have them, the forces of Dracos will invade ‎Demorsa and put an end to this war once and for all, ‎before the Demorsans can come up with something ‎even worse. ‎

While the ordinary forces of Dracos swarm across ‎the border, Aralaiah and Red Queen will lead a special ‎strike force into the very heart of Demorsa, to the ‎capital city and the main temple compound, to ‎confront the high priest of the Sorcerers and his ‎council of adepts.‎

But although they’ve had spies working in there ‎for years and think they know what they’re getting ‎into, Demorsa holds a secret unguessed-at by the ‎Dragonesque; a secret that will upset all their ‎carefully-made plans and test Aralaiah and Red ‎Queen to their limits. ‎

Red Queen Ascendant is the sixth and final ‎instalment of the Rainbow Dragonesque series.‎