The Hatchling

Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfil his father’s destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps
of forbidden legend and strange news of a place where goodness and nobility reign. He must summon all his courage to defy his destiny—and the embodiment of evil that is his mother.