Colt Hawkridge is an indentured servant living the life of a drake wrangler at Drake Iron Ranch on the farthest edge of civilization. It’s a good life, but it’s not his own. More than anything Colt craves his freedom. And now he just might have it...if he can survive. A runaway drake leads him to discovering dangers and opportunities lurking under the mountains he’s named for. The goblin plague has outrun the advance of civilization and a horde is gathering with the intent to attack the settlements. It’s up to Colt, a brilliant young mage suffering from Lupus, a half-goblin girl with a mysterious past, and a talking sword with her own ideas about adventure and heroics, to save the frontier.