The Night Rider's Heir

Taking place sixteen years after the harrowing finale of The Night Rider Trilogy, "The Night Rider's Heir" resumes the tale following Zephyr Haddock, a Berkian teenager who doesn't feel like she fits in much with the numerous Vikings nor dragons around her; despite the fact that her late father, Hiccup Haddock, had been the chief of Berk until his untimely death before Zephyr had been born. With few friends and no dragon of her own, Zephyr spends much of her time stuck on the ground thinking about the grandiose bedtime tales of the Night Rider-a mysterious vigilante and dragon rider dressed in scaled, ink-black armor who had rode upon the mighty Night Fury, fighting for the freedom of dragon kind against the cruelty of the Dragon Hunters-that her mother had told her as a child. Zephyr spends her days wishing she could be more like her hero and less like a freakish nobody. But, that could never happen, and the young Haddock was certain of it. Until all that changed after an encounter with a strange dragon deep within the forests of Berk, forcing her mother to reveal a mountainous secret of her late father.