Rise Of The Dragon Star Book I Of The Dragon Star Saga

Ren is a young gryfess on the verge of initiation into the Dawn Spire pride. She comes from a distinguished line of huntresses, and is expected to follow in their path. Unfortunately, the only thing Ren is interested in hunting is knowledge. When her curiosity over a mysterious discovery costs her the initiation hunt, her mother banishes her from the family den. Devastated, Ren is determined to redeem herself. Her chance comes when she takes part in an exchange of young gryfons and journeys to the Silver Isles. Instead of adventure and fellowship, Ren and the others find a pride suffering strange calamities, and a deadly, sweeping illness that has driven them from their home island. Gryfons are dying, and Ren sets out to find answers. She thinks the disasters and the illness might be connected to her discovery at home, and if she’s right, she could save the pride. But if she's wrong, they will all pay the price.

One avenging goddess. Five shattered realms. Seven extraordinary heroes. A blood-red star blazes to life in a crow-black sky... Sha-Kutan looks up at a new star shinning beside the twin moons. He has spent years hiding from the past on his small farm, but now he senses a woman and a girl approaching -- and the men who pursue them. When they arrive, the woman claims the soldiers will kill the six-year-old princess for her strange powers if they find her. Torn between his new oaths and his old ways, he decides to protect them, even though it will alert the one who still hunts him. Now they flee for their lives together, following a star that heralds the birth of a goddess who promises to conquer the world. Soon, their fates are intertwined with six other exceptional people whose lives are thrust into turmoil by the new goddess -- a reluctant prophetess, a prince-turned-priest, a powerful sorcerer, a brilliant philosopher, a desperate noblewoman, and an immortal old man. They must all fight to protect those they love in a realm reeling from the chaos of an ancient and harrowing power. Will the new goddess's arrival fracture the world? And can Sha-Kutan and the other champions come together to save the realms when the old gods awaken to challenge her? Perfect for fans of The Wheel of Time and The Stormlight Archive series. "The character and world building are exceptional...Definitely recommended if you want a brilliant epic fantasy." -- Archaeolibrarian: I Dig Good Books! "The writing is beautiful...This is a well-crafted book and one I will not easily forget." -- Air Global Radio Network Book Reviews The Dragon Star Saga is a continuous novel spread over several books. The story so far: The Dragon Star (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 1: Episodes 1-3) The Shattered Realms (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 2: Episodes 4-7) The Lost Temple (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 3: Episodes 8-10) The Crimson Goddess (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 4: Episodes 11-14)

Romy Russell comes to China in search of adventure and becomes caught up in the turmoil of the Red Army's fight for control of the country

Shard is a gryfon with a great destiny, and desperate to stop a war. He is hampered on his path to peace by would-be allies, old enmities and grudges between clans of creatures, and the ever-looming threat of the fear mongering wyrms. Everyone believes that Shard is the legendary Summer King, that he alone can make the wyrms see reason and stop their violent marauding before more lives are sacrificed. But when he uses newfound powers to try communicating with their leader, he only ends up making things worse. When the wyrms make a surprising move by attacking where Shard least expects it, he knows he must be willing to sacrifice anything—and everything—to stop them once and for all.

Shard is a gryfon in exile from the pride of the Silver Isles. After learning of the injustices wrought by the Red King he once served loyally, Shard now seeks to fulfill the promise of the legendary Summer King, who is destined to bring peace and balance when he appears. Shard's quest will take him across the sea to the homeland of the gryfons who conquered the Silver Isles, into a web of new allies and new enemies, winged and wingless alike. There he will learn of the fierce enmity that drove the Red King and his pride from their homeland, and the deadly grudge stretching back two generations that, if left unfinished, could destroy them all.

With her widely acclaimed and bestselling fantasy trilogy, Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn opened an enchanted gateway to a universe of magic and sorcery. Now, in the first novel of the Dragon Star trilogy, a generation of peace is about to be shattered by a seemingly unstoppable invasion force.

A voice in the wind sings on . . . Shard is a gryfon entrusted with a great responsibility. A dragon of the Sunland has left her newborn kit to his care, and now Shard has difficult decisions to make about how best to keep the swiftly growing dragonet safe, while remaining true to his own destiny and the prophecy of the Summer King. He sets out to return the dragonet to his kin in the Sunland and find help for his own quest, but his hope for making wise and benevolent allies is quickly replaced with the reality of cold, mistrustful dragons who want nothing to do with gryfons, Shard, or his wars in warmer lands. In the Silver Isles, the warrior gryfon Caj sets out on a dangerous hunt for his mad wingbrother, Sverin, once the mighty Red King. The safety of the pride, and in the end, Caj's life, may depend on his success or failure. Meanwhile, Shard's wingbrother Kjorn seeks to find him and reconcile, and his quest will take him across the land that was once his birthright and into the heart of tricky alliances, enmities, and the ever-looming threat of the Voiceless, fear-mongering wyrms. The Song of the Summer King promises that one will rise higher, one will see farther, and his wing beats will part the storm . . . but as Shard learns more of the world and the tangled threads of fate, he begins to fear that no one can part the storm of growing hatred and fear--not even a Summer King.

Readers plot their own dragonological mission.