In a world of dragons, Jassan longs to become one, but will the answer to his dreams unleash the dead? Jassan stumbles through his lonely life as one of the most reviled creatures in Avonoa...a faerie. Although Avonoa boasts a growing number of full and part-dragons, faerie dragons simply don't exist. Just as Jassan receives a glimmer of hope that his wishes could come true, the dead invade. And they are on the hunt for his blood. Soon Jassan is on the run from monsters, and the madman who controls them, surrounded by people who despise him. Reluctantly swearing oaths on their lives, seven dragons must help Jassan and a strange faerieman on a dangerous quest that could end the world if they fail. Can Jassan give up his only desire in order to save the world? Begin the powerful adventure in The Gatekeeper of Death, the first book of the young adult epic fantasy series, Dragons of Avonoa!