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The Choir of Sleeping Dragons
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 12 2026
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Choir of Sleeping Dragons
Across the world, dragons sleep in hidden caverns, their synchronized breathing quietly steering ley lines, weather, and spellcraft. Scholars call it the Great Balance. Most people call it a myth.
They're wrong.
When Gharuun the Ember-Deep jolts awake beneath an unnamed mountain and screams, the sound tears through stone, sky, and magic itself. Spells misfire, storms go feral, and the world discovers the terrible truth: the dragons are not legends. They are the infrastructure holding everything together-and the Great Balance is breaking.
Aris Leth, a young ley-cartographer who hears magic as music, records the first clean imprint of the dragon's scream. In it, he recognizes something no one wants to believe: structure. Pattern. A call that fits an impossible score whispered about in forbidden archives-the Song of Return, an ancient ritual meant to lull a waking dragon back to sleep.
There's just one problem.
The final, sealing note must be sung by a human voice willing to die mid-verse... and never quite leave.
Dragged from his quiet maps into a race against collapsing ley lines, Aris is thrust into a dangerous alliance of monks, bards, soldiers, and politicians who see the dragons as tools, weapons, or gods. As another dragon stirs in the deepest ocean trench and ley storms ravage continents, humanity debates whether to chain the dragons tighter, wake them fully, or attempt a third, riskier path: a new kind of Balance where dragons don't just sleep-they listen.
To save a world built on someone else's breathing, Aris must decide what his voice is worth... and whether he's willing to become part of the machinery that runs the world forever.
Perfect for readers who love:
Epic fantasy with living magic and deep worldbuilding
High-stakes rituals, ancient orders, and political fallout
Stories where balance has a bloody, beautiful price
The Choir of Sleeping Dragons is a standalone epic about the cost of stability, the ethics of control, and the power of a single note sung into the dark.
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