Temper the Dark - Storms, L. Ryan

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Résumé :
Servant girl Alaris Kahlanik finds out about her family's gift the hard way when she discovers her ability to dreamwalk after being condemned to the Cells. With thoughts of escape, she uses her newfound ability to spy on the emperor and his secret search for something important. Nothing the emperor wants could possibly be good for the people he rules, and so whatever the emperor is looking for, Alaris must find first. Throlani Guardsman Kagan Liis has served the Empire since Emperor Patuk's reign began eight years ago. He can also communicate with a vicious oracle referred to only as the Darkness. When the Darkness tasks Kagan with investigating the Servant girl in the Cells, Kagan takes on a special mission that will require more than his usual interrogation methods of brute strength and intimidation. From vastly different echelons of the same tribal society, Alaris and Kagan are surprised to learn they share one important goal - ensuring the best for the people of their island nation. Alaris discovers what the emperor is looking for - a dragon! But warning a senile dragon against impending danger is no easy task. Together, Alaris and Kagan must save a forgetful dragon and a divided nation...which may mean giving up any hope of saving themselves....

Biographie:
L. Ryan Storms is a writer, photographer, traveler, and dreamer. She's a member of the Eastern Pennsylvania chapter of SCBWI and the Alliance of Independent Authors. She has written articles featured on the front page of local newspapers, but mostly she writes novels near and dear to her heart. She holds a B.S. in Marine Science from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in Business Administration from Marist College, but writing young adult fantasy has always beenher true passion.Her first young adult novel, A Thousand Years to Wait, placed first in the Young Adult category in the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards and was an award-winning finalist in American Book Fest's 2019 Best Book Awards. Most recently, Temper the Dark was a finalist in both the 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards OZMA division for Fantasy Fiction and the Young Adult Category of the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.Storms lives in Pennsylvania with her cancer-survivor husband, two children, and a rescue zoo of ever-changing furry and feathered animals. When she's not writing, reading, or keeping her teens in line, she enjoys hiking, photography, and planning the next big adventure....

Sommaire:
L. Ryan Storms is a member of ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors) and the Eastern PA chapter of SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators) with a background in both science and business. Book 1 of her Young Adult fantasy trilogy, A Thousand Years to Wait, placed first in Young Adult Fiction in the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards and was an award-winning finalist in American Book Fest's 2019 Best Book Awards. Her most recent young adult fantasy, Temper the Dark, was a finalist in the 2023 Ozma Fantasy Fiction category of the Chanticleer International Book Awards and a finalist in the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. She writes everything from adult to young adult to picture books, and when she's not in front of a computer, she can be found snuggling her backyard chickens in the suburbs....