A young girl causes a fire in her family's home, with a burst of magic blue fire, it doesn't stop, unable to control it it keeps growing and growing. she hears the screams of her mother, her father rushes towards her, worried, but he too, turns to ash, his skeleton dropping, his bones clean of any meat. she starts to cry, as her flames do not affect her in the slightest, her eyes glaze over as she watches her old life burn away, as though it never existed. Her name is Sarah, Sarah Parker. Several years pass, she's in her mid teens now, 17, she fled to the mountains ages ago, so that she wouldn't hurt anyone again. This is the story of her life.
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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