First Dragon

Morbunda is a land still divided centuries after a devastating war when the last dragons turned on their human allies. Men rebuild, but war soon erupts again, this time a battle between human religions. The foundling, Kerik, bitterly accepts his destiny when the specter of war threatens his friends, the twins Donal and Lyla Logan. Nothing can stop the fanatical army rolling toward their home except a battle dragon as of old, and the most powerful of ancient fire serpents is reborn in Kerik. But human learned how to kill dragons in the last war. Kerik can't turn back the invaders from the north alone. Driven by need, Lyla discovers her own gift, a magic that is anathema to everything a dragon is. Kerik fights on despite weapons created only to kill him while he battles his attraction to Lyla. But the real war in the one against his cruel dragon nature as the beast inside him slowly crushes his human soul.