Dragon Bearer's Son
Elizabeth White
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(Whyswoman Publishing, July 5, 2015)
Teenager Toby has two impossible dreams: that he had known his father who died before he was born, and that the beings of myth and legend, who he encounters in the fantasy worlds of online role-playing games, were real. Because he knows his dreams cannot come true, he has never had to consider the saying that you should be careful what you wish for - until he unwittingly comes under attack from an ancient creature of magic, and his life is saved by a stranger - a stranger with serious magic skills of his own, and who, it turns out, had once been a friend of Toby's father..Almost immediately after this,Toby's home is wrecked, and he is forced to go away to the English West Country to stay with an unknown great aunt, She tells him the local legend of the dragon Blue Ben and the Devil, and then introduces him to Cassie, the teenage girl who lives next door - all apparently without ulterior motive.Then strange and fantastic events begin to happen thick and fast; and Toby learns some unsettling truths - both about his father and the mysterious enemy who was responsible for his father's death, and who wants the power that is contained in Toby's inheritance for himself.Toby becomes determined to claim his birthright and avenge his father, but neither he nor Cassie realise that he is unwittingly being manoeuvred into place as a player in the Dragon's Game...N.B. Toby's story continues in the second of the 'Dragon's Game' series, entitled 'Dragon's Move', to be released later this year.