The Dragon Race
A highborn wizard’s only contender to save her clan is an escaped mage with a troubled past who refuses to return to the Order, and when both women are targeted by a hidden enemy, they clash as often as they spark.
All Daya Foxbriar wants is freedom from the Order of Magic, and she thought she had it. Tormented as a child for lacking magic, she escaped her clan and built a life as a mechanic and rockhopper racer in Acerima. But her hard-earned freedom is shattered when a highborn wizard arrives in her city and tells Daya she must save the wizard’s clan from invasion.
Aldera Viisard needs a dragon rider to be her clan’s champion, and the Order demands the rider be a clanless mage without magic, as if a perilous dragon race isn’t sick and twisted enough. She’d already lost one friend to this gladiator method of “settlement” between feuding clans. But Daya tells Aldera to just keep looking. No way will she return to the Order.
But when Aldera’s rival launches brazen attacks upon innocents, Daya doesn’t hesitate to fight, and Aldera realizes all is not as it seems with her mission to find a dragon rider. As mounting danger and betrayals force the two women to confront their growing feelings for each other, they must decide whether to go their separate ways or risk a safe future together to stop a common enemy and uncover a hidden truth about the Order of Magic…and Daya.
About Deryn
I love fantasy, although I can’t handle gratuitous violence (so, not a fan of Game of Thrones). Some of my favorite fantasy shows: The Witcher, Hanna, Carnival Row, Roswell NM, Lucifer, The Umbrella Academy, Grimm, The Good Place, The Travelers, and Galavant (really would have loved more seasons of Galavant because my second big love is musicals).
Some of my favorite Instagram accounts: thedailyjames, yangafrica (watercolor artist), thewritercorner, astrosborne (he’s hilarious–check out his Mrs. Darth Vader clips), nowthisnews, and betches.
I’m mom to three adorable Pomeranians, two of whom cuddle with me at night (the third doesn’t know I’m alive). I spend a fortune on seed, suet, mealworms, and kibble for the birds and outdoor animals, and waste far too much time talking to Tipsy, so named for the white tips on her little squirrel ears.
I drink tea, not coffee, and am desperately trying to reduce the sugar in my diet to help with my ADHD.