"Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, [this book] compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. These never-before-collected [but previously published] adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consciousness"--Dust jacket flap.