Daughter of the Dragon
Wrath of the Stormking • Book 2
by Michael G. Manning
Why You'll Love This
The hero leaves to prevent one war — and the real war starts the moment he's gone.
- Great if you want: political intrigue and a queen forced into impossible choices
- The experience: urgent and darkening — tension ratchets steadily toward a brutal climax
- The writing: Manning splits the narrative cleanly, letting Selene carry the emotional weight
- Skip if: you haven't read book one — context here is not optional
About This Book
A fragile peace is no peace at all—and in Daughter of the Dragon, Michael G. Manning makes certain you feel every crack forming beneath the surface. With the Stormking away on a desperate mission, Selene is left to hold a kingdom together against enemies who prefer poison to swords and shadows to battlefields. The real tension here isn't about armies clashing on open ground; it's about how much a person can sacrifice before the thing they're fighting to protect ceases to exist. Selene's choices carry genuine weight, and Manning never lets her—or the reader—off easily.
What distinguishes this second entry in the Wrath of the Stormking series is how confidently Manning shifts the narrative's center of gravity. Selene steps fully into the foreground, and the book's pacing and structure reflect that transition—tighter, more intimate, with a current of dread running beneath even quieter scenes. The prose is clean and purposeful, never indulgent, which keeps 500-plus pages moving without the bloat that plagues lesser epic fantasy. Readers who invest in characters as much as plot will find this volume the richer for it.
