Dragon Unleashed (Fallen Empire, #2)

by Grace Draven

Until recently, with the exception of the monks who’d raised him, he’d at first found humans generally detestable. They tended toward pettiness and cruelty, their short lives defined by a ferocious need to rise in the world by whatever means necessary and motivated by an avarice that defied and superseded any greed ever assigned to the most rapacious draga.