What if your destiny was written on a scroll?Fyran has always believed her future lies in her grandfather's library, where she is apprenticed to the Doctor of the Dead. But a mysterious scroll begins speaking to her, claiming to be the Ink of Stars and calling Fyran its apprentice. It gives her a single command: find the Scroll and teach it to the Beast.But Fyran knows who the Beast is.Stygian, once the dragon Hyaline, has become the Starless Fiend of legend. Haunted by the lives she has destroyed, she has fallen under the influence of Turbulence, the god of Confusion, who promises her a chance to change her destiny.As Fyran follows the Scrollwriter's cryptic instructions into a hidden world of magical scrolls, she begins to uncover secrets about destiny, death, and the gods. But the path toward the Beast is leading her closer to the creature she once vowed to destroy.Meanwhile, Turbulence has made Stygian his apprentice and is preparing for a confrontation with the First Dragon-one that could change the fate written in every scroll.Fyran must discover whom she can trust, what her destiny truly means, and whether the Beast she has been commanded to teach is really the monster she believes it to be.THE SCROLLWRITER is the second novel in the Curse of the Stars trilogy. With dragons, mysterious gods, magical scrolls, and a struggle over destiny itself, The Scrollwriter continues the story begun in The Starless Fiend.