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A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen s beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms. They say a Rider in...

The dragons did not choose the strongest. They chose the one who remained. Kane Jackson has spent his life feeling invisible. The oldest son of a father who left and a mother who built a new life without him, Kane learned early how to stay quiet, work hard, and expect nothing. In the mountain kingdom of Aeridor, dragons choose their riders from the boldest and strongest. No one expects them to choose the boy who stands at the edge of the crowd. But when Vaerathon, the ancient King of Dragons, descends from the sky and chooses Kane before the entire High Flight, everything changes.

Deep beneath the ancient mountains, a secret stirs. The Heartstone of Drakdur, a powerful artifact forged by dwarves long ago, has awakened. This legendary relic, capable of reshaping the earth itself, calls out to Thrain Deepdelve—a sixteen-year-old dwarf hiding his extraordinary power to manipulate stone. Burdened by a prophecy linking him to the artifact, Thrain embarks on a perilous journey to the lost city of Balgrum, the Heartstone’s hidden sanctuary.

The author of Heartstone once again infuses elements of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with her own brand of magic in this addictive fantasy that brings back sparring lovers Aliza and Alastair: fierce warriors who match wits, charm, and swords as they fight an epic war to save their world. The...

Monsters, manners, and magic combine in this exciting final volume in the Heartstone Trilogy—an exhilarating blend of epic fantasy and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice—in which a fearless healer and her dragon-riding husband must stop a reawakened evil from destroying their world. “The...