Who can you trust when you are the key to what everyone wants?Allakoi Meras only wants one thing: to journey south and flee from the conflict that consumes the north. So long as he keeps his head down and avoids notice until spring, his escape from a society that actively hates him will be successful.Fate, however, has other plans for him.When an encounter with a psychopathic dragon leads to a rare and dangerous power awakening within him, Allakoi suddenly finds himself targeted by all entities involved in a centuries-long war—entities that are willing to do anything to have him under their control.Surrounded on all sides and not knowing who he can trust, Allakoi finds himself faced with a terrible choice...Either choose a master to be enslaved to, or risk everything in pursuit of his freedom.Before the Sky Breaks is the first book in The Shattered...