about the book
In the tradition of epic stories of heroes, Siobhan McQuaid, sixteen, agrees to be the bard for her school’s only dragon-slayer, Owen Thorskard.
Siobhan and Owen live in a world where dragons are reality. Throughout history, mankind has fought them. In fact, the Sahara Desert is the result of a botched, massive dragon-slaying attempt, having to do with Rome’s conquering of Carthage. The logo for the Red Wings symbolizes Henry Ford’s wheel, which elevated Detroit, and the wing of the dragon that destroyed the motor city.
When the world began using fossil fuels and mankind’s cities became rife with smog, coal, and oil, the dragons flocked to urban centers—and the best dragon-slayers followed. The rural areas were left unprotected, and that includes Siobhan and Owen’s small town of Trondheim.
As a dragon approaches Trondheim. Owen, last of a long line of historic dragon-slayers, hopeless at math, not built for any sport worth mentioning, with grades plummeting, faces impossible odds, armed only with his family’s sword…
Siobhan will sing his story, however it ends.
about the author
E.K. Johnston worked several jobs and even started on something she considered a vocation before becoming a published writer.
Her name is really Kate. At least, that is what she goes by. Her father surprised everyone in the delivery room with a last-second declaration about her first name, the E., which Kate never reveals to anyone if she can help it. She also uses her initials because two of her favorite authors, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, did it, and it seems to have worked out well for them!
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Also by E. K. Johnston:
A Thousand Nights. Disney-Hyperion. October 2015.
Prairie Fire (Dragon Slayer of Trondheim, Book 2). Carolrhoda. 2015.
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