A young woman allies with magnificent dragons in the first book in the
Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffrey's
beloved and bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series.
Every two hundred years or so, on the planet colony of Pern, shimmering
Threads fall from space, raining death. Yet the great dragons of Pern,
mounted by the stalwart dragonriders, scour the skies with fire to
destroy the deadly Threads and save the planet.
But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her
father who betrayed her ambition to be a harper, who thwarted her love
of music, because she was a woman. Menolly had no choice but to run
away. When she came upon a group of fire lizards--wild and smaller
relatives of the fire-breathing dragons--she let her music swirl around
them. She taught nine of them to sing. And suddenly Menolly was no
longer alone--she was Mistress of Music, and Ward of the dazzling fire
dragons.