Valley of the Burned: A Fire & Light Prequel

Before Allie. Before Erik. Before the curse consumed the world.Seventy years after dragons vanished from the sky, the world has forgotten what magic once was. Shrines stand empty. The old powers are fading. And high in the frozen mountains, something impossible is still waiting beneath the ice.Serena has spent her life sensing things no one else can feel. Storms speak to her before they arrive. The earth shifts beneath her feet with quiet warning. But when she discovers a hidden meadow guarded by an ancient tree, she finds something older than memory itself.A dragon egg.When the hatchling finally breaks free, the ancient curse that destroyed dragonkind strikes immediately, twisting his body and trying to force him into something less than what he was born to be. Serena stops the transformation without understanding how.Now she is tied to the last living dragon in a world that was built to erase his kind.As whispers of forgotten magic begin to stir again, Serena and the dragon she names Auren become the center of something the world has spent generations trying to bury. And far away, the witch who created the curse begins to feel the first cracks forming in the silence she fought to build.Perfect for readers who love: Dragon rider bonds Slow burn fantasy romance Ancient curses and lost magic Mythic fantasy with emotional depth Character driven fantasy worldsValley of the Burned is a sweeping fantasy prequel to the Dragonfire Saga, revealing the origins of the curse that shapes Fire & Light.

Pages: 206, Paperback, Independently published