12 must-read sci-fi and fantasy releases to escape with this March
By Lacy Baugher
March 2021 book release: Flamefall – Rosaria Mundi
The highly anticipated next installment in Rosaria Mundi’s Aurelian Cycle trilogy, Flamefall picks up pretty much where Fireborne left off, with the dragonlords ready to lay siege to Callipolis and reclaim their city.
New Firstrider Antigone sur Aela is responsible for coordinating the this strategy, but she’s struggling with her new responsibilities and with her best friend – and best dragon rider – Lee sur Pallor suffering from flameshock, she has few allies to turn to.
As for Lee, he’s still dealing with the fallout of his actions in Fireborne, which set him at odds with the family he thought he’d lost so long ago, and which has made him question where – and if – he still belongs in the society he killed to find a place in.
And what the future holds for New Pythos is anyone’s guess.
The official synopsis describes the story in greater detail.
"After fleeing the revolution and settling into the craggy cliffs of New Pythos, the Dragonlords are eager to punish their usurpers–and reclaim their city. Their first order of business was destroying the Callipolan food supply. Now they’re coming for the Dragonriders. Annie is Callipolis’s new Firstrider, and while her goal has always been to protect the people, being the government’s enforcer has turned her into public enemy number one. Lee struggles to find his place after killing kin to prove himself to a leader who betrayed him. He can support Annie and the other Guardians . . . or join the radicals who look to topple the new regime. Griff, a lowborn dragonrider who serves New Pythos, knows he has no future. And now that Julia, the Firstrider who had protected him, is dead, he is called on to sacrifice everything for the lords that oppress his people–or to forge a new path with the Callipolan Firstrider seeking his help. With famine tearing Callipolis apart and the Pythians determined to take back what they lost, it will be up to Annie, Lee, and Griff to decide what to fight for–and who to love."
Flamefall is available on March 23.