The Dark Secret
core novel 2013 Wings of Fire
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.36 (42,312 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 336 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780545349215 |
Synopsis
The Dark Secret is the fourth book in the Wings of Fire series, following Starflight, the studious NightWing among the five dragonets of destiny. After being separated from his friends and captured, Starflight is taken to the hidden, secretive homeland of the NightWing tribe, a place he has spent his whole life wondering about but never seen. There he finally meets members of his own kind for the first time, only to discover that the NightWings' guarded reputation conceals troubling truths about how the tribe actually lives and why it hides itself so completely from the rest of Pyrrhia. Alongside fellow captives from the RainWings, Starflight must navigate the NightWings' suspicion of outsiders and their rigid secrecy while searching for a way to escape and rejoin his friends, all while grappling with his complicated feelings about a heritage that is nothing like what he imagined.
Where it sits
- Universe: Wings of Fire
- Series: Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy (Arc 1) core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tui T. Sutherland
Notes
- From the series record (Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy (Arc 1)): Tui T. Sutherland's middle-grade dragon-world epic fantasy; the original five-book arc that introduces the five dragon tribes of Pyrrhia.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy (Arc 1): position 4 of 5: previous The Hidden Kingdom (2013) · next The Brightest Night (2014)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Fire_(novel_series)
- https://wingsoffire.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Secret_(book)
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