Adept: The Essence Gate War, Book 1

Amric is the only human ever raised among the Sil'ath, a race of reptilian warriors, and he shares their loathing of all things magic. Not even that aversion, however, will prevent him from finding friends now lost in a land ravaged by strange powers. After all, it was his orders that sent them there. Together with his Sil'ath sword-brother, he retraces the steps of their friends to Keldrin's Landing, the barest toehold of civilization in a land fiercely resentful of the intrusion. They fin...