The Sleeping Dragon: Part II: Eclipse’s End: 2 (The Sleeping Dragon Trilogy) - Softcover

Warden, L. C.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798269582849

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Magic returns. The Authority suppresses it. Cooperation becomes humanity's only hope.

For two hundred years, the Global Unity Authority has maintained order through technological control, suppressing all deviation from baseline human genetics. Neural implants ensure compliance. Bloodline abilities are eliminated before they can manifest.

Then Raven Zhang wakes up with dragon scales and seven-hundred-year-old memories that aren't hers.

Across the globe, bloodlines are awakening—Phoenix fire-breathers, Tiger Clan warriors, abilities the Authority insists are extinct. The regime responds with Protocol Extinction: systematic elimination of all magical humans.

Phoenix Rising resistance movement offers Raven alliance. But cooperation between factions who've never trusted each other requires something unprecedented: genuine synthesis.

The cooperation trial will prove whether humans can work across difference—or whether the Authority was right that hierarchy is the only sustainable human state.

Titans surface from the ocean depths with a warning: Prove you can maintain distributed guardianship, or face species elimination.

"Political fantasy with stakes that matter and choices with permanent consequences."

Philosophical epic fantasy with permanent consequences.

The Sleeping Dragon: Eclipse’s End is Book II of a trilogy spanning 1,400 years, exploring what happens when consciousness tries to learn from catastrophe—and discovers that learning takes centuries most species don't survive.

Perfect for readers who want:

• Morally complex protagonists who must live with irreversible choices
• Magic systems with real costs and visceral transformation sequences
• Action that feels consequential (wounds matter, death is permanent)
• Political complexity rooted in genuine historical depth
• Questions without comfortable answers

You won't find:

• Chosen one prophecies or guaranteed redemption
• Magic that solves problems without creating worse ones
• Deaths that get reversed or weight that lessens

Content advisory: Violence, mass casualties, transformation body horror, morally grey protagonist. Not grimdark, but unflinching about consequences.

Complete trilogy available

Book II of The Sleeping Dragon Trilogy
Magic awakens. Authority crumbles. The real test begins.

Some choices can't be undone. Some weight can't be set down.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798269582849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292