Worlds by James Wheeler

Work continues on the final book in The Origin Cycle trilogy, The Dragon Machination. The back cover is still a work-in-progress and subject to change, but I am pretty happy with what I've got so far:

The dragon magic and the choices Aether and his friends made about it transformed their fallen world. Now, ships fly. Dragons, too, fill the skies, but they are ridden by wizards going about their lives.

The Old World was reclaimed. Lost cities have been rebuilt. A new age of magical wonders has freed Origin's people from living as refugees. They've harnessed the dragons that almost killed their civilization into a force that empowered them to rebuild it.

But the widespread use of magic in their world has again drawn the gaze of the ones who nearly doomed their people centuries before. A new tide of danger is rising, and when Veytra formulates a foolhardy plan to take the fight to the enemy's own world, she will reveal just how deep that darkness goes…and what that knowledge will, ultimately, cost them all.

Aether, Veytra, and the rest of Origin's heroes must stand against their adversaries' will to re-conquer the world they once abandoned. They must defend the hope they all share in the future they're fighting to build, alongside the dragons…and their magic.