Eleanore Jones, Lora, is a poor sixteen year old, just finishing up her first year as a charity student in a prestigious boarding school in England. The year is 1915 and England is caught up in the war but she is more than just any orphan, she is Drakon ... a being with magical abilities that allows her to turn into a dragon. She soon finds herself caught up in THE DARKEST NIGHT with so much on her young shoulders.

With the war, her friend Armand turns his family mansion into a convalescent hospital, giving Lora a job as part of the nursing staff when she would have been sent off to an orphanage in Scotland. He does this for a number of reasons but he doesn't want her to go. They soon find that Armand's brother is alive and held prisoner in Germany. It is she with her abilities that has a chance of rescuing Aubrey from the prison.

THE DEEPEST NIGHT is an enchanting, magical paranormal adventure. Lora continues her learning experience without Jesse (from The Sweetest Dark) though his voice is still part of the book. Armand, whom she calls Mandy, is the only person she can turn to who understands what it is to become a dragon. She is a strong, loving character, but who is witty and human enough to be able to give back a few digs to the prissy girls at the school without being overly bitchy, something I thoroughly enjoyed. My biggest complaint of this book is that if the reader had not read The Sweetest Dark which was the previous book, they might find themselves a little lost. Some background explanation would have been helpful, but in no way did that lack take away from the beauty and magic of this young adult book.