Years after swallowing a kraken bone fragment and then witnessing the brutal killing of his powerful magician father, Daniel endures a life of petty thievery until his crime-boss uncle compels him to steal his father's powerful sword and fight a corrupt regime.

Daniel's adopted son Sam, made from the magical essence of the tyrannical Hierarch of Southern California whom Daniel overthrew and killed, is lost-consumed by the great Pacific firedrake secretly assembled by Daniel's half-brother, Paul. But Sam is still alive and aware, in magical form, trapped inside the dragon as it rampages around Los Angeles, periodically torching a neighborhood or two. Daniel has a plan to rescue Sam. It will involve the rarest...