Dance with Dragons (2026)

The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance in A Dance with Dragons, the fifth volume of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the fantasy epic on which HBO’s hit series A Game of Thrones is based. In the east, Daenerys, the last descendant of House Targaryen, rules as queen of a city built on dust and death, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity and enemies closing in. Now that her whereabouts are known, many are searching for Daenerys and her dragons, including Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf who has escaped King’s Landing with a price on his head after being wrongly condemned to death for the murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. Before fleeing, Tyrion kills his hated father, Lord Tywin. In the north stands the great Wall of ice and stone, a structure only as strong as those who guard it. Eddard Stark’s bastard son Jon Snow has been elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, but he faces enemies within the Watch and beyond the Wall, where wildling armies are gathering for an assault. On every side, bitter conflicts are reigniting among outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, as the tides of destiny lead toward the greatest dance of all.