The Acadmey of Dragon Riding Excellencecy has been hiden for 425 years, but it had few riders. People were loosing their 'belief'. That, among other things, cause them to be unable to be a dragon rider. In a small town, three men in black, red and gold cloaks are asking people to send forth the thirteen year old children to test for dragon riders. The villages' strongest hunter, a teenage tom-boy, agrees to test. She pulls back her hood, letting her brown braid hang down. Her brown cloak hung loose on her frame. She tests positive, and is wisked away, to the magic world of TADRE, & dragons! She fights to blend with the other male riders, and earn the trust of her dragon, and her peers! When the acadmey plays a hiden card, she is forced to flee, and she learns a few things she had hid from herself... She also discovers the school and its' staff have more secrets than she'd like to know about... What readers are saying about TADRE: "Too good." "So many plot twists. Love it." #938 in fantasy!!! #1 in dragonriders

COMPLETED 760 pages total Betrothed to an evil prince, Kenreik, the crown prince to the Kingdom of Guerin, Jovena wishes to escape and be free. But, with maids knocking at her door every other second and expected to birth children for the prince after they marry, she cannot even leave her quarters. And, to make it even worse, there is now a voice in her head that claims to be a real being and seems to know everything. One night, when the king becomes gravely ill and dies and every castle worker is at his side, Jovena grabs all her belongings and runs from castle, fleeing for her life. Her goal is to reach the region no one ever dares go, the Desolate Plains. But she has to got through the Dark Forest and Ice Mountains to get there. But, she is taken off course by a new adventure she cannot miss, and it changes her life forever. In this story, friendship is tested, mystic creatures are found, and adventures take hold. Join Jovena on this magical adventure through the kingdom!