Dragon Mage Academy Books in Order
Part ofCordelia Castel Books in OrderFollow the Dragon Mage Academy series by Cordelia Castel in order, with book summaries, series background, and tips on where to begin.
Last updated: June 6, 2026
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Publication Order
7 books
Protector of Dragons
by Cordelia Castel
2019
A loyalty elixir binds the dragons to King Magnar, giving him a path to turn them into an army. Alba must sabotage his control from inside a magical trap that threatens her own freedom.
Prisoner of Dragons
by Cordelia Castel
2019
Alba’s push for justice backfires when a trusted friend faces a deadly witch hunt. With one dragon and only days to act, she and her allies risk everything on a rescue.
Princess of Dragons
by Cordelia Castel
2019
Princess Alba escapes a forced marriage by disguising herself as a boy at Dragon Mage Academy. When she bonds with a dragon accused of murder, proving its innocence becomes a matter of life and death.
Poacher of Dragons
by Cordelia Castel
2019
Alba and Fyrian face a new crisis when dragon eggs vanish from a protected hatchery. With angry dragons, fairy magic, and King Magnar closing in, she must solve the theft before Mount Fornax erupts.
Plague of Dragons
by Cordelia Castel
2019
A strange sickness sweeps through the dragons of Mount Fornax, and suspicion turns toward Alba. With Fyrian weakened, she has to work with uneasy allies to find the cause before the plague turns deadly.
Patron of Dragons
by Cordelia Castel
2019
The spriggans move against Mount Fornax, hoping to raise the Forgotten King and reclaim power over dragons. Alba and Fyrian must trust unlikely allies for one final fight for dragon-kind.
Pariah of Dragons
by Cordelia Castel
2019
Alba is ordered to stay out of trouble, but missing dragonets make that impossible. A mysterious thief and a sinister force at Mount Fornax put her bond with Fyrian, and her future, at risk.
Series background & context
Dragon Mage Academy is Cordelia Castel’s dragon-school adventure set in the same wider world as The Seven Kingdoms. It moves the focus to Princess Alba, a seventeen-year-old royal who wants out of a future being arranged for her. Her solution is bold, risky, and very Castel: she disguises herself as a boy and tries to enter the all-male Dragon Mage Academy at Mount Fornax.
The plan almost immediately goes sideways.
In Princess of Dragons, Alba discovers a murder and becomes telepathically bonded to a dragon accused of the crime. The bond is not symbolic. If the dragon dies, Alba dies too. That gives the first book a mystery shape inside the academy setting. Alba has to survive training, hide who she is, and prove the dragon’s innocence before the authorities carry out a deadly sentence.
From there, the series keeps finding new ways to put Mount Fornax under pressure. Poacher of Dragons centers on stolen dragon eggs. Plague of Dragons brings illness to the dragons and suspicion to Alba. Protector of Dragons raises the stakes with a loyalty elixir that could turn dragons into tools of King Magnar. The threats are magical, political, and personal, often all at once.
Alba’s secret identity is one of the series’ running engines. She is trying to prove herself in a system that was not built for her, while also learning what her bond with Fyrian means. The academy gives the books structure, with instructors, rivalries, rules, and punishments, but the story rarely stays safely inside a classroom. Castel keeps pushing Alba into rescues, investigations, forbidden magic, and choices that could cost her place at the academy.
The later books, Prisoner of Dragons, Pariah of Dragons, and Patron of Dragons, make the conflict bigger. Friends are threatened, dragonets vanish, spriggans move against Mount Fornax, and the Forgotten King becomes part of the endgame. By the final book, the question is not just whether Alba can graduate or keep her disguise. It is whether dragon-kind can remain free.
Read the series in order, beginning with Princess of Dragons. The books build directly on one another, and Alba’s relationships, enemies, and magical obligations make the most sense when followed step by step.
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