Kira Skayfoll vsyu zhizn' gotovilas' k etomu momentu. Smelaya feniksidka s belymi kryl'yami, zakalennaya trenirovkami, no pochti lishennaya magii, ona otpravlyayetsya v garnizon drakonitov, kotorykh uchilas' nenavidet' s rozhdeniya. Dva vrazhduyushchikh klana vynuzhdeny ob"yedinit' sily protiv obshchey ugrozy - nevedomykh monstrov, poyavlyayushchikhsya iz-pod zemli. V garnizone Kira stalkivayetsya s Shedu - mrachnym i nemnogoslovnym drakonitom, ch'ya tenevaya magiya opasna... i prityagatel'na. Mezhdu nimi voznikayet strannaya, muchitel'naya svyaz', kotoroy Kira pytayetsya nayti ob"yasneniye. Vse vedet yeye k drevney legende o Drakone i Feniks, no yest' te, kto tverdo nastroyen pomeshat' yey dokopat'sya do istiny. I poka probuzhdayetsya zlo, a napadeniya monstrov stanovyatsya chashche, Kira ponimayet, chto klyuch k razgadke - v ney samoy.