After the Dark incident, Husky and I had nothing to do. The first few days we spent walking Venge home. Then we were going to head back to his house on Eastland, but we were distracted on the way. In Deuland we were tempted with a very good score. And we took it.
Husky and I agreed, since we had nothing better to do, to continue where we left off, stealing things for the thrill and hiding from the law. And god did we have fun.
But after around almost two years, we were in the Woodlands again for the first time since I got my memory back. And once again, I was stuck in a prison. But luckily this time, I still had my memories and also Quentin.
I had been passing through the human region of the Feudlands at the time, Nullwood. The place had been quiet, and none of the guards noticed Husky and I, despite the fact they’d captured me two years earlier. Apparently someone everyone liked was dying of cancer. I don’t remember who it was, but nobody was happy about it.
Husky and I were planning on trying to find a score in the High City somewhere, a place Venge had told us about. Looking back, that was probably a really dumb idea because neither of us spoke Latin or even took Latin in school.
On our way there, we were surrounded by Low City Baccas, and captured. We were stuck in this cage stuck in the top of a tree, and left there to wait for crows to eat us. Lovely way to go.
But before they could, something rather unexpected happened.
Four more people were shoved into the cage with us; and one of them was a Bacca himself.
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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