Europe, Northern Africa, and Some of Western Africa after the 1st World war was now divided by ideologies, and by government ideals. With Five separate blocks of power. The Federation of Western Nations, The Syndicalist Internationale, The Union of Nordic States, The Austro-Balkan Alliance, the Imperial Federation of Moscow, and the Combined Federation of North Africa and the Middle East.
The Federation of Western Nations, consisting of the Kingdom of Britain, the 3rd French Republic, the Iberian Diarchy, Independent Irish State, and the Combined States of the Italian Republics.
The Syndicalist Internationale, this alliance consists of the German Federal Syndicalist Republics, the Union of Poland, The People's Free State of Czechoslovakia, The Independent Republic of the Netherlands, The Belgian State of Workers, The Commune of Luxembourg, The Swiss Confederacy of Worker Syndicates, The Union Baltic Communes.
The Imperial Federation of Moscow, The Tsardom of Russia, The The Ukrainian Commonwealth, and The Duchy of Belarus, The Principality of Transcaucasia.
The Union of Nordic States, The Republic of Sweden, The Union of Norway, The Anarchist Federation of Finland, and The Kingdom of Denmark.
The Austro-Balkan Alliance, The Kingdom of Austria, The Hungarian Federation of Feudal States, The Yugoslavian Union of Feudal Lords, Kingdom of Albania, and the Tsardom of Bulgaria.
The Combined Federation of North African Coast and the Middle East, the Islamic Republic of Turkey, Syrian-Lebanon Islamic Dual Sultanate, Transjordan Republic, Israelite Republic, Iraqi Islamic Federation, The Iranian Sultanate, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Sultanate, The Tunisian Kingdom, Algerian Federation, and Moroccan Republic.
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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