About the book: year / There are only five girls left at the Selection, and everyone is waiting for the test to begin, when they will have to descend into the depths of the dragon’s bed. Cyrus learns the truth that he did not want to know, and, acting willfully, crosses the path of the supreme servant. Agatha learns the bitter taste of betrayal and, finding herself in darkness, finds out what the dragon emperor was like two hundred years ago and how he managed to take the throne... Agatha and Cyrus will have to unite and learn to trust each other in order to save the Empire and unravel a deadly conspiracy.