steve and sarah miller receive an urgent message from lentari, the land they call their second home, the magical place of dragons and wizards, the land where they became, for a time, guardians to the crown prince. when both of them have the same unsettling dream, a vision that something bad is happening in lentari, they go-without a second thought. they learn a terrible sickness is consuming the dragon population, affecting their powers, starving them, killing them. steve and sarah arrive with two goals: help the dragons find the source of the ailment, and don't tell the king they suspect it's a curse or spell of some kind. pryllan is distressed to learn that her mate, kahvel, has fallen under the awful spell. will she be next? will their young dragonlet child succumb to it? it's up to steve and sarah to travel the land with pryllan and follow the clues, and then to conquer the evil source before the illness decimates all the dragons of lentari. newly edited and re-released! * * * praise for jeffrey poole's epic fantasy novels: "i loved this book. it had so much imagination to it. great for young and old." - d. estrada "there's adventure & a little humor and all the characters are just right. " - happy2day "i especially liked that this story revolved around a husband and wife team, rather than being the typical "hero's journey" of an adolescent boy." - m.l. "... plenty of action, adventure, and romance, but is harmless enough for pre-teens to read; it is a well-told tale." - 5 stars on amazon "if you love wizards, dragons, griffins & such, you have got to read the bakkian chronicles!" - 5 stars online review