A man with a heart consumed by pain.
A dragon with eyes as red as blood.
And a past that must remain forever hidden.

Killing dragons — that is what Carim can do, what he loves, and what he has done for years.
On one hunt, after killing a brooding female, he seizes her last unbroken egg. But before he can sell it, the dragon hatches.
In his insatiable hunger for power, the young man sees all the opportunities now before him and forges a wicked plan. For once the beast obeys him, every man will crawl at his feet …