After Elsa melted Arrendale, Anna and Kristoff got married. They had a child, a little boy named Congelado, who was quickly nicknamed Connor.
Shortly after Connor was born, Elsa met a boy. A boy named Jack. Jack didn't have ice powers like Elsa, but he helped her with them. They fell in love, and when Connor turned two, they were married. Now it was their turn to have a child, this time two baby girls whom they named Ellie and Ella.
Ellie was a sweet baby, always gentle, always quiet. She'd coo and giggle, never cried.
Ella was sweet too, and cute beyond it's measures. She was a rebellious baby, the exact opposite of her sister. She'd cry, and scream, but her parents loved both twins equally.
Ella grew and grew, but on her 3rd birthday, she disappeared. No one could find her. Everyone assumed her dead.
Ellie grew up as a normal child, and she was never told of her sister. On her 10th birthday, everything changed.
She had the curse.
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.
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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]
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