FireDrakes is the first in the "Chronicles of the Daemon Knights" series. Below is an excerpt from the Synopsis. A link is provided to CHAPTER 1 .

ir Rodney lives a relatively peaceful life until a two hundred and fifty year old wizard drops from the sky upon the back of a FireDrake named Grigor. Wizard Aldus has come seeking the Daemon Knights, who gained fame twenty years earlier by successfully defending their tiny island home from a vastly superior force of Carpathian invaders.

Gamel, the aging Sorcerer-Emperor of the powerful Nagual Empire, plots to bring the entire continent of Coronis under his thumb. Magdalen, Gamel's beautiful young apprentice, has betrayed him and made a grab for power by stealing an ancient amulet that gives her ultimate power over the FireDrakes. Setting aside their differences, Gamel and Magdalen have cobbled together an alliance of sorts that also includes the half-crazed swamp witch, Agilina, and her small but deadly army of were-beasts.

In order to break the back of this trio of evil, Aldus must convince the Daemon Knights to recover the amulet and free the FireDrakes. Unfortunately, they will be forced to travel through part of the Empire and then skirt Agilina's domain to reach Penardun, an abandoned elfin fortress at the foot of Drakenmount, home to the FireDrakes and Magdalen's lair.

The Daemon Knights accept the challenge. Led by Silas, one of the surviving heros of the Carpathian war, a small band of knights sets sail for Coronis. All begins well, but halfway through Nagual they are abandoned by the wizard and left with only a crude map to guide them. Soon forced to flee from both a FireDrake and a full legion of Imperial Dog Soldiers, they manage to escape into neighboring Icarus only to be captured by an Icarian duke. In exchange for their lives, they agree to stand and fight the pursuing Imperial legion along side the Duke's outnumbered forces.

When Silas is killed in battle, Rodney finds himself elevated to the unwelcome position of leader. After slaying the FireDrake, he comes face to face with Magdalen's fetch. Though the fetch is just a ghostly reflection of her soul, and she promises to punish him for killing her FireDrake, Rodney falls hopelessly in love. Haunted by visions of her in his dreams, torn between his duty and his feelings, Rodney leads the knights and their new found Icarian allies toward the final confrontation.

FireDrakes ISBN 978-0-9783824-0-7
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