Let There Be Dragons

The Children of Ankh series backstory...

Identical twins, Kayn and Chloe Brighton share a soul due to a supernatural mishap. One soul was gifted to a mortal, this soul split, leaving one twin with the dark half and the other with the light. At the age of sixteen, the Correction came to erase their family line, leaving Kayn as the only survivor. She joins clan Ankh and must absorb her deceased twin’s soul so they can become one. Her best friend Kevin is also taken by Ankh, due to a psychic ability, inherited from his grandmother. In a surprising plot twist, his grandfather turns out to be the leader of Triad. Kevin is taken by Triad. Kayn struggles through the loss of her best friend and first love as she begins to train for the Testing with Zach and Melody. Now that her soul has been joined with her twins, she feels Chloe’s emotions and dreams of her experiences at night. Her twin's attachment to Frost causes her emotional conflict. Kayn must learn to fight and die, and stand back up to fight and die again in order to get through The Testing. She tries to move on with Frost, but unresolved feelings for Kevin get in the way. Before the Testing, she discovers that even though Kevin has had his memory erased, he still seems to feel something for her. Frost let’s her go to figure out her feelings. Kevin and Kayn reconnect, but he is part of a plan to help her survive the Testing by turning her into an emotionless Dragon. After the devastating plot is followed through, our heroine attains the ability to operate without emotion. After dying a thousand times while trapped in a magical place far worse than any version of hell one could imagine. Kayn leads her clan out of the immortal Testing, but the girl that survives the simulation of hell is much darker than the girl that entered. Our heroine has attained the ability to operate without emotion. The girl that survives is a Dragon. This is not a fairytale. This is a nightmare.

Let There Be Dragons Book 3

Kayn begins her immortal life in Clan Ankh as the clan’s second Dragon. Zach is now her Handler and they both have issues with the situation. The five survivors of the Testing struggle to accept their new duties as they are thrown into situations far beyond their ability level. There is no longer a line between her twin’s memories and her own. They are now truly one being. Our heroine makes more than a few mistakes while learning to use her Conduit ability. Kayn feeds from Frost’s energy and lights a match within her soul. This causes the need for him she has always felt to overwhelm her every thought. She learns how to manage the Dragon that resides within her with the help of Zach as they fall into their fated roles. Kayn begins to accept the loss of the girl she once was by embracing the Dragon she has become. She finds joy in the pleasures of adulthood as she succumbs to her feelings for Frost. This is a tale about one girl’s evolution as she loses everything in order to become something far greater. There is beauty in letting go.