The Pit … a toxic mist that embroils the world, mutating people into the Fallen, radioactive mutants with powers beyond man’s wildest dreams The Peaks … Home of the Peakers. Five mountaintops where the last scraps of humanity eke out a living like cavemen among the dinosaurs Unable to conceive children of their own, they rely on the Cradle of Life, a mysterious structure from a long-lost time before the Cataclysm that destroyed the planet … Technology is forbidden The moon is wrecked And dragons terrorise the Peaks every summer when they emerge from hibernation The only defence against them is the noble pterodactyl-riders With her apprentice ceremony coming up, Erris longs to be one of the legendary pterodactyl-riders But what her apprenticeship will set in motion is a chain of events that no one could have predicted, unlocking the secrets of the Pit’s depths Unveiling the enigmatic schemes of mad scientists, cunning mutants and a ruthless AI in a sinister plot against the Peakers themselves An action-packed, fast-paced, post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy thrill ride of a story about the lengths to which some will go for the greater good, and how far one young woman will go to stop them