Brax, hero of several Dragon Assassin tales, finally gets to tell his own story . . ./p> On a diplomatic mission from Drachia, the country of dragons, he and his rider, Carmen, encounter a ghostly vision of The Nameless Goddess, who warns them she is coming to conquer their world. When the duo arrives at the Akkad empire, they discover that the emperor has been killed by what looks to be a servant of that goddess, and his...