Audio Book Description:
When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, hethinks it is thelucky discoveryof a poor farm boy; perhapsit will buy his family meat forthe winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbledupon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient swordand the advice of an old storyteller forguidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrainand dark enemies of an Empireruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of theEmpire may rest in his hands...