Cyris Veol is an ordinary 21 year old girl, living alone in an apartment in New York City. But her whole life turns upside down one day at her favourite antique store. She finds four dusty dragons, all with brilliant green eyes almost exactly like her own. The four dragons’ scales are unique for each dragon; One has glimmering emerald scales, only a slight different shade of its eyes. Another ruby red scales. Yet another-a beautiful turquoise. And finally, the fourth had shining silver scales. When Cyris buys the enchanting dragons, she believes that they were just four ordinary additions to her mantle piece. She couldn’t be more wrong. Because in buying those dragons, Cyris stumbled onto a magic older than time itself…

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

She has escaped. She is free and the world awaits. No one knows her. But they soon will.

Marcie is an oddity in her village, the daughter of a widower with both village and outsider blood in her veins. She cares for her drunken father, and struggles to fit in with the rest of the village. Everything changes when she comes across two dragons, a mother and her new born, and unwittingly becomes the Tamer of the baby dragon when his mother dies. This new unlikely bond completely changes her life and opens doors to her future that she would have never thought possible whilst also causing her pain and heartache.