The Dark Secret

Starflight wakes up in the NightWing fortress, built on an active volcano. The tribe is weak and the island is dying. He uncovers their plan: invade the RainWing rainforest, and to prepare, his father Mastermind experiments on captive RainWings. With Fatespeaker, a backup dragonet for the prophecy, Starflight escapes and warns Glory through the dreamvisitor. Glory's army drugs the NightWing guards and frees the prisoners. Queen Battlewinner refuses to back down and freezes to death. Starflight proposes that the NightWings live in the rainforest if they swear loyalty to Glory. As the volcano erupts, Morrowseer admits he made up the dragonet prophecy. He dies in the blast, and the flash leaves Starflight blind.

1. Behind the scenesFirst bestseller list

   The Dark Secret, from October 2013, was the book that put the series on national bestseller lists.

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2. ReferenceThe half-sister speaks

   Fierceteeth, Starflight's half-sister, narrates the Winglet Prisoners, later collected in The Winglets Quartet.

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3. SetupThe dream sapphire

   Starflight uses a sapphire that lets one dragon walk into another's dreams, the dreamvisitor. Remember that stone: it turns up again.

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