by Ava Richardson
Date Published: 10.31.18
YA Fantasy
About the book:
In Alveria, humans and dragons have existed side by side for centuries, but old tensions have grown and the kingdom is now divided between human nobles and the dragons that fear for the survival of their species. For the humans who serve the dragons, the future looks bleak: human Tamers outnumber the dragons and no viable eggs have been laid in over two decades.
For seventeen-year-old Kaelan Younger, growing up at the bottom of Alverian society has been hard, made even harder by the fact that she is loyal to the crown and has a habit of opening her mouth when she shouldn’t. But when her mother, dying of a mysterious disease, reveals the secret of her father’s identity, Kaelan is thrust into a world she was never prepared for – the opportunity to train at a prestigious school for those who share a dragon’s bloodline. The Alveria Akademy is a proving ground for humans and dragons alike, and could give Kaelan the chance to change her life forever.
Faced with a new life, and the gradual realization that she is meant for something more, Kaelan must reconcile not only her past, but also the course of her future. When her responsibilities as a Tamer collide with her feelings for Lasaro, Prince of Alveria and a powerful dragon shifter, it will take a strength she has never known to prepare her for the coming danger, and the fate of the dragons she has been sworn to serve.
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BOOK EXCERPT:
Prince Lasaro Afkarr hated arguing with his mother.
On bad days, this was because she ended arguments by turning into a creature a hundred times larger than him, with long, sharp teeth that she would never dream of threatening him with, but still kept in his line of sight all the same. Even on good days, though, the argument never ended up going his way. No one took him seriously—Queen Celede, most of all. But today he was going to change that.
He squared his shoulders, pushed open the door to the throne room, and approached his mother.
Queen Celede, dragon-blooded ruler of all of Alveria, was draped over her throne in her human form. He had no idea how she managed to turn an action so simple as sitting on a chair—albeit an intimidating chair, with long gold spikes emanating from its back—into an act of grace, but it made him feel clumsy and young by comparison. Today, she wore a simple sapphire gown decorated with golden-threaded trim. When she turned to look at him, her slender golden crown shifted atop her mass of brown-and-gray curls. She reached up to secure it with a flick of her wrist, making even that small motion look elegant.
Lasaro bowed. She ignored him.
“Linna!” she called out instead, narrowing her eyes as she peered over his head. “How many times do I have to tell you, no sword practice in the throne room? I’m about to hold court, and if you slice off another nobleman’s finger, there will be Hel to pay.”
He glanced over his shoulder—just in time to duck as Linna, one of his older twin sisters, whirled her sword in a shining arc that would’ve taken his head off. Linge, the other twin, darted in to catch her sister’s blade with her own. Lasaro bit back a frown, stepping well out of the way. One of these days, he’d lob his own sword at their heads and see how they liked it. He wasn’t quite as good at combat as them—they had too much dragon blood, so that it made them warlike and hotheaded, and far more willing to chop people’s heads off than he’d have preferred—but if he was swift enough, maybe he could at least get their attention.
But it wasn’t their attention he was here for today.
BOOK EXCERPT:
Prince Lasaro Afkarr hated arguing with his mother.
On bad days, this was because she ended arguments by turning into a creature a hundred times larger than him, with long, sharp teeth that she would never dream of threatening him with, but still kept in his line of sight all the same. Even on good days, though, the argument never ended up going his way. No one took him seriously—Queen Celede, most of all. But today he was going to change that.
He squared his shoulders, pushed open the door to the throne room, and approached his mother.
Queen Celede, dragon-blooded ruler of all of Alveria, was draped over her throne in her human form. He had no idea how she managed to turn an action so simple as sitting on a chair—albeit an intimidating chair, with long gold spikes emanating from its back—into an act of grace, but it made him feel clumsy and young by comparison. Today, she wore a simple sapphire gown decorated with golden-threaded trim. When she turned to look at him, her slender golden crown shifted atop her mass of brown-and-gray curls. She reached up to secure it with a flick of her wrist, making even that small motion look elegant.
Lasaro bowed. She ignored him.
“Linna!” she called out instead, narrowing her eyes as she peered over his head. “How many times do I have to tell you, no sword practice in the throne room? I’m about to hold court, and if you slice off another nobleman’s finger, there will be Hel to pay.”
He glanced over his shoulder—just in time to duck as Linna, one of his older twin sisters, whirled her sword in a shining arc that would’ve taken his head off. Linge, the other twin, darted in to catch her sister’s blade with her own. Lasaro bit back a frown, stepping well out of the way. One of these days, he’d lob his own sword at their heads and see how they liked it. He wasn’t quite as good at combat as them—they had too much dragon blood, so that it made them warlike and hotheaded, and far more willing to chop people’s heads off than he’d have preferred—but if he was swift enough, maybe he could at least get their attention.
But it wasn’t their attention he was here for today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ava Richardson writes epic page-turning Young Adult Fantasy books. She creates lovable characters and drops them into intricate worlds that are barely contained within your eReader. Her current work is the ‘Return of the Darkening Series’, which features Seb, Thea and their shared dragon, Kalax.
She grew up on a steady diet of fantasy and science fiction books handed down from her two big brothers – and despite being dog-eared and missing pages, she loved escaping into the magical worlds that those authors created. Her favorites were the ones about dragons; where they’d swoop, dive and soar through the skies of these enchanted lands.
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