David Rain, the protagonist in this book is at the moment with his girlfriend Suzanna Martindale in the Arctic doing their research on the ice cap melting. They are pretty much unaware of what has happened back home with Suzanna's new dragon Gretel. Grockle's existence last for a few hours as he was turned into stone, in her utter disappointment Gretel tries to revive him. Liz (Elizabeth Pennykettle) has no choice but to lock her up in a cage inside the Dragon's Den. During their time in the Arctic David has spent time writing a novel about the Arctic itself in which is called 'White Fire'. David thinks that his writing is all fiction but the story is actually happening to the two male bears he named Ingavar and Thoran. Thoran is described as being much more wiser who is following a sign on the sky and Ingavar is described as an impatience,fierce and wounded bear who is following the instruction of a mysterious woman. Tension is rising in the Pennykettle's household as Lucy, Liz's daughter is kidnapped by the 'mysterious woman'. Her intention is to awaken the most ancient dragon Gawain from his tomb.
The incident progresses further until David's girlfriend is being kidnapped by polar bears while he is at home with the Liz to help calm her down after the kidnap of her daughter. Grockle suddenly awakes and as his curiosity rouses he ventures out of the Dragon's Den with the shock, horror and happiness of everyone. Simultaneously, David forces Liz to tell him who 'Arthur' is when his special writing dragon Gadzooks gives him the name out of nowhere. Liz told him everything about Arthur being her husband and how the 'mysterious woman' who is now revealed to be Gwillana did to break them up. David travels to Farlowe island afterwards in search of Arthur where he finds out that Arthur chose to be called 'Brother Vincent' after his decision to go by life with this religious island. He experienced a lot of this island, in fact, he survives the attack from a Fain ( an invisible creature. There are two races the Ix:risor and the regular Fain. The regular Fain accepts dragons whereas the Ixs are the anti-dragons.) Grockle was there also as he was scared but vicious, David manages to calm him down and orders him to fly to the Arctic. A long introduction along with an explanation is made by David when he finally meets Arthur who then teaches him how to use Dr. Bergstrom's peculiar talisman to teleport from place to place. David teleports himself to Arctic where he fights against the very same Ix that attacked Arthur to the death. David is stabbed in the chest by two spears of ice but he is not dead because the ice is Gawain's fire tears. David killed the Ix and Suzanna (is rescued) approaches him, in tears. They have a brief conversation as David promises to meet her again in Valentine day with a gift which will be a new dragon called G'lant. He leaves Suzanna as Ingavar takes his body on a floating pit of ice. Back at the Pennykettle's household Suzanna tells Liz, Arthur and Lucy(Lucy is released by Gwillana at this point) that is pregnant with David's child.
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This novel is from "The Last Dragon Chronicles"series by Chris d'Lacey. I think that the book is pretty much fascinating about its' own story about dragons and their believers. The book is structured in various different locations and times as the story progresses from different point of views of the characters, bears and dragons. The thing which is not stated in the plot is why Gwillana comes back to take revenge on David Rain makes this storyline a little bit confusing. Perhaps I could read the first two novels of the series "The Fire Within" and "Icefire" to understand why. Apart from those reasons I do enjoy reading this book from the start to the end and since the book is quite long it takes me while to finish it.
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