SUMMARY: As the War of Souls continues, the shield over the elven kingdom of Silvanesti falls. Mina leads her forces triumphantly into that conquered nation, only to face danger from friends and foes alike. Meanwhile, Goldmoon follows the river of the dead, which threatens to engulf them all. "Dragons of a Lost Star" expands on the War of Souls saga and forms the point around which subsequent novels will revolve.

The Ancient Vampire Lord, Grigori Rasputin, unleashes his vampire army on the country. The Order is first to fall, leaving humanity with nothing but a ragtag militia to defend the United States from the hordes that now occupy it.Sverre leads his small group to find allies in the war against Grigori's armies. Not many are willing to risk the wrath of the ruthless vampire, but a plan soon begins to form.Grigori has grown into a new being that the world has never seen. A virtual undead god on Earth, seemingly unstoppable. He commands the most powerful military force on the planet. If Sverre cannot find a way to defeat him before the last of the resistance is stamped out, humanity will fall under permanent rule of the vampires.

When Jakari got orders taking her to a primitive alien world, she expected the mission to be like any other. Get in, eliminate the target and get out again. Instead, when she arrived, she found out that one of the leaders of the fascist Char Oram was there, seeking to turn the inhabitants into mindless soldiers that could tip the war in favor of the Char. When Hayami Takahashi followed a strange woman down a dark street, all she wanted to do was make sure the woman didn’t wind up as the next victim of a kidnapping ring working the streets of Dallas. Instead, she found herself in the middle of a civil war between two factions of shape shifting cyborg aliens. After Jakari saves Hayami from becoming a test subject in a Char lab, the two of them end up working together to try to stop a war that’s been raging for nine thousand years.