Calvin is a boy out of time, waking after hundreds of years of hibernation into the 21st century. You see, Calvin is no ordinary boy. He is a dragon shapeshifter, able to transform between a mighty dragon and man. He is no ordinary dragon, though. He is the Dragon's Ember, the race's last hope to continue surviving. Thing is, he never wanted the job, but on the night he decided to leave he discovered a plot to destroy the dragons once and for all. He fled but was overcome by his master. Now, two hundred years later with all of the dragons dead, and being hunted by Amara, his old mentor, Calvin must do everything he can to survive.
Lana Chasseur is your typical Latinx teenage girl. She loves nature. She goes to school, does homework, has friends, and she's constantly pushed away because of the color of her skin in her home of Northern Maine. She's also watched every day by her guardian Reed since her adopted mother is always away. She lives a pretty typical life, at least until she finds a secret deep in the woods, a boy who can turn into a dragon! Now her own life seems to be falling apart, and secrets begin to show themselves, tearing her family apart. Now Lana must choose, will she help the dragon-boy, or stay with her family.
Ray is low on time, luck, and hope; his only chance is an artifact that may not even exist. But upon meeting Landon, Ray is beginning to believe he might find all four.
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Cambions are doomed to tragedy. They are weak, sickly creatures that rarely live to see their twentieth year. Ray refuses to resign himself to that fate. Upon learning of the Crimson Sheath-an artifact capable of preserving his life-Ray is prepared to fight, steal, and kill to get his hands on it. He is not prepared for Landon. Landon is an orphan with no memories of his parents, the only inheritance left to him a dagger, sleeping in a crimson sheath. Though he has no love of bloodshed and no use for a dagger, Landon isn't about to let Ray take his only link to his forgotten history, even if that means following the cambion past the edge of the world and into the shadow beyond.
Content Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic gore, character deaths, profanity, mild drug and alcohol usage, abuse discussed but not shown, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things.