Land of the Burning Sands

The cold mages of Casmantium began a war against the griffins. They lost.

As the griffins' fiery winds bury his city beneath the burning sands of the desert, Gereint Enseichen, a skilled maker bound under the Casmantian geas of servitude, seizes his chance to escape. This isn't his war — and he sees no reason it should be. Yet when Gereint finds himself caught between the fury of the griffins and the desperate designs of the last Casmantian mage, he'll have no choice but to set his newfound freedom at hazard or see his country destroyed.

Tehre Amnachudran, brilliant mathematician and engineer, is far less interested in battle than in constructing bridges. But when she encounters Gereint, she finds herself pulled into a war she never expected to fight. Her skills seem ill-suited to war, yet as the blazing storm breaks across Casmantium, she, too, must set herself between her country and deadly peril.

Time is short, for Casmantium is already turning to desert below the searing winds …