One-Fifth Dragon, (Hardcover)

<b>DRAGONS, ASSASSINS, AND NINJAS!</b> <p><b>By a Baen Fantasy and Adventure Finalist and Indie Star</b> </p><p><b>Cover by Dungeons and Dragons artist Todd Lockwood</b> </p><p>They call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold. </p><p>Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon. </p><p>They taught me the art of disappearing: how to slip through a room like a shadow at noon, how to dress a face in lies until no one recognizes the man beneath. They taught the small, hands-on cruelties: how to hide poison, how to slit a throat before the man can make a noise. </p><p>Most dangerous of all . . . they taught me patience. They taught me to never quit until the job was completed. </p><p>So let them sleep in their castles and whisper of safety. Let them keep their cleverness and secrets. I already know their sins. When darkness comes--and it will--I will be the thing beneath the floorboards, the breath on their necks, the quiet that becomes the scream. I will return what they took, multiplied by the cruelty they practiced. </p><p>Their hands built the blade. </p><p>Their choices sharpened it. </p><p>Their blood will be the prize.</p>

• One-Fifth Dragon, (Hardcover)
• Author: Baen
• ISBN: 9781668073353
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-08-04
• Page Count: 416