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The Rider's Legacy

The Rider's Legacy

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* Currently being re-edited!*The Fourth Installment of the Rider's Series Following the battle for Ithrall, the Ashbourne Riders find themselves leading a country that is on the brink of ruin, where the odds are stacked against them and they have everything to lose. ---------------------------------------------------Valaxia has been thrown into certain turmoil. The Council is scattered and Ithrall is gone. No longer hated but feared by the country she has sworn to protect, dragon Rider Neely Lynch knows that they are the last defense against Acheron and a broken country. But the stakes are higher. The armies are scattered. The leaders are divided and Acheron's goal reaches beyond Valaxia, to the human realm that knows nothing of magic or dragons. To fail would mean the end of Valaxia and magic forever. Cover credit goes to the wonderful @CarrKann. Check out their beautiful work on their profile. x…

From Silver and Chaos

From Silver and Chaos

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The Third Book in the Forged Series. 'Forged from Silver and Chaos.' People have died. Souls have become stagnant. A war that seeks to reduce the Empire to ash is inevitable. Aviana Birchwood remains as a beacon of hope, burdened with stolen magic and the head of the Empire's last hope. ------------------------------------------------- Aviana returns to find that Cadelith has fallen into chaos. The Insurgent has re-emerged, stronger in Aviana's absence. The Legion reels from the events at Aoak, struggling to hold the Empire together as the taint of the Insurgent expands into the Emperor's inner-circle. The Insurgent will do anything to make sure he doesn't fail a second time. He will reduce the world to ash. All that stands before him is the Legion, created in a time of desperation and now remains the Empire's last desperate hope of salvation.…

Wicked is the Curse.

Wicked is the Curse.

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'Magic Wielder Aire, finds herself at the heart of a rebellion she has always tried to avoid, to dismantle the brutal Empire that hunts her people.'A tale as old as time. Magic is forbidden in the ever-growing empire of Kaelara and those who wield it are hunted it. Aire, a trader of secrets, has spent her years hiding the curse in her blood, determined to survive despite all that hunts her. But, when her hard built life is torn apart by betrayal, she is forced to navigate a world of magic and treachery, hunted by a ruthless soldier of the Empire who speaks of regicide and rebellion. To survive, she must turn to the curse of magic in her blood. A magic only she can harness to save herself and cleave a future for her dwindling people.…

The Rider's Legend

The Rider's Legend

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Hated by the people she's sworn to protect, dragon rider Neely Lynch searches for her stolen dragon while struggling to control the dark powers inside her. *****After the Culling of Naughton -- a horrific slaughter that led to the murder of several dragon riders and the destruction of two separate armies -- Neely Lynch is on the warpath. Unbeknownst to most, Neely and her friends survived the Culling and are determined to reunite with their kidnapped dragons at any cost (even if that means leaving a trail of broken and bloody bodies behind them). But finding her dragon soon becomes the least of her problems when Neely discovers her disappearance after the Culling has only added to her reputation as the infamous Vidalin Rider. Hated and scorned by the people she's sworn to protect, Neely must find a way to prove she's not the villain everyone thinks she is before her dark and deadly powers, which are slowly growing beyond her control, transform her into the very thing she's trying not to be.[The Rider's Legend can be read as Book 3 in The Rider series, or as a standalone -- but note that it will spoil Book 1 and 2][[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]"This story is now available on YONDER, your next-generation reading app from the Wattpad family.Join me on YONDER today! Find it now in your app store."…

The Taint of Wolves

The Taint of Wolves

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Nova, a former prisoner of an anti-lupine cult, must team up with the creatures she was taught to fear to save her beloved country from war. --------------------------------------------------------Lycans and humans live alongside each other. Peace hangs by a thread. At every corner, a new threat seeks to break the Peace Accords that keep the land from falling into war. The Ravi have emerged as a fanatical organisation whose sole-purpose is the eradication of the lupine race. Their secret weapon - the Omega. A human bitten by Lycan. A girl tainted by the bond of the wolf. For the past eight years, Nova has found herself the subject of cruel and inhumane experiments. She rules the patients of the asylum with tooth and claw but evil cannot be contained forever. Freedom beckons and Nova escapes into a world totally changed. With the Ravi hunting her, only one wolf can keep her hidden. Her long-lost mate.…

From Iron and Ruin

From Iron and Ruin

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Book Two of the Forged Series. Aviana Birchwood's fight continues. As a half-blood Elf, she is hated for her blood, but she is determined to bring the murderer of her family to justice. Even if that means she has to raise an army and fight the injustices of the Empire at the same time to do it. ----------‐---------------- ---------------------------- Aviana Birchwood has faced the creature who massacred her family and has emerged as a symbol of hope to the people of Cadelith. But the Legion's fight has just begun. The Insurgent's grip on the Empire is growing stronger and evils emerge from every corner of Cadelith. Closer to home, Aviana finds herself tangled in a net of betrayal and deceit that threatens to shatter her fragile peace and in doing so, would destroy the Empire's only hope of survival…

The Rider's Fate

The Rider's Fate

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Neely Lynch wants nothing more than to stay hidden from the spotlight. Raised in the human world, she knows only stories of her true home. A place where dragons rule the skies and wolves prowl in the dark of night. A place where her family name speaks of a terrible and bloody history. A history that no one wants to remember. Fated to be a Dragon Rider, a powerful breed who rule by fire and sword, Neely must learn to hide her heritage in a country which would seek to destroy it. Especially when she is bonded to a breed of dragon that is feared above all and thought to be extinct until then. Demons rise and threaten the fragile peace in Valaxia, forcing Neely to either accept who and what she is, or watch her friends and country fall.(Book One in the Riders Series)…

Freeing Lilia

Freeing Lilia

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She goes by many names. But there is only one name she wants to hide. A name being whispered throughout the land. Rumors are spreading of a warrior who has tamed a dragon. The First Dragon Rider. As a woman used to betrayal and pain, Lilia finds her home in the company of the vicious Rainer Thieves. The pain that haunts her is secondary as her life is filled with the danger of her job, and shared with the dragon bound to her soul. Then, war threatens to up-heave Lilia's life as forces that she cannot control collide and she finds herself separated from the dragon she is bound too and forced to join a strange group of the King's soldiers, where their leaders claims her as hisFate has taken hold of her life and the journey is unforgettable.** This is the story of Lilia Merek, the first RIder. The story is a stand alone book to my Rider's Series and can be read without reading that series.**…

From Ashes and Snow

From Ashes and Snow

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'' Following unimaginable loss, a Half-Blood Elf must ally with humans to find the creature who killed her family and save the Empire. '' Book One of the Forged Series. Aviana Birchwood's world crumbles when the Keep of the Dratlan Elves where she has lived since she was a girl is attacked and torn apart by unearthly creatures.As the only survivor of the massacre, the fate of the Empire is twisted with her own. She finds herself burdened with powers none can understand and an unwilling heroine to the very people who shun her kind.She must ally herself with those who believe her. An insufferable and honour bound Captain, the last male of a dying species and a Magin who has broken away from her own kind. They are four people with their own goals, their own agendas who are forced together to save an Empire on the brink of destruction.…

The Rider's Truth.

The Rider's Truth.

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Book Two in the Riders Series - Behind the magic and splendour of Valaxia, lies a darker world of torture, betrayal and deceit. One that Neely Lynch has become too well acquainted with; her life contained to the cells of Acheron and her soul hidden from the one who shares it. It festers, growing dark just like those who came before her as she fights to survive in a world that only wants to see her gone. The tide in Valaxia is turning, the truths of history rearing its ugly head. She will learn, they all will learn just why Valaxia fears the Vidalin Rider.…