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Summary

​Dragons in the real world, mixed with Arthurian legend…These three quartets follow the adventures of a girl with dragon wings, a boy who breathes fire, and their eclectic group of friends as they fight dragon slayers, Nephilim, and otherworldly elements. Full of high-packed action and sword-swinging adventure, great for boys and fans of Percy Jackson. 

Stats

Genre: Teen (13-16 years) high fantasy with threads of political intrigue and romance.

Series length: Three books, plus prequel trilogy (The Kinsman Chronicles)

Violence: Moderate fantasy violence

Magic/Supernatural: Light to moderate supernatural

Romance: Minimal until the end of book 2; moderate after that. 

Christian/spiritual element: Overt allegorical elements

Recommendation: Excellent for boys or girls who enjoy medieval fantasy and high adventure

You might like this book if you liked... 
The Lord of the Rings, Eragon, or books by Chuck Black.

To Purchase

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A winter storm is brewing. I can tell by the damp chill in the air. I hope we get blankets. Last year the guards told us they had to save the coats and blankets for the soldiers, but I don't believe them. Malice spices their words, as chilling as last February's blizzard. It was so cold one night, Ashley nearly froze to death. If not for wrapping her in my wings, I'm sure she would have died. Summer breezes thawed our bones, but autumn breezes portend another storm. Will we survive this time? 

Song of the Ovulum (Children of the Bard, Book 1)
by Bryan Davis

It has been more than fifteen years since Billy and Bonnie Bannister helped repel the demonic assault on Heaven. Since that day, the world's acceptance of dragonkind has crumbled, and the Enforcers have abducted the Bannisters' infant twins. now Bonnie and her friend Ashley sit in a maximum security prison where the authorities conduct experiments on them to learn the secrets of long life, while no word has been heard from Billy or the twins in years. 

During Bonnie's imprisonment, a great secret from the past is being revealed to her through a series of dreams. Joran and Selah, teenaged children of Methuselah, have been trapped in a strange world for centuries, yet still able to manipulate certain events in our world during that time. 

The fate of all prisoners now rests on the Bannisters' friend Walter and two teenagers, who might be the long-lost twins. They will have to battle a demon, outwit a sorceress, and sneak past soldiers in order to rescue parents they don't even know. 

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Matt sprawled in the mud next to Walter. Five armed prison guards surrounded him, one with a rifle pointed at his head. The other four shifted their aims wildly at dragons orbiting outside an encircling firestorm. Flames crackled. Steam billowed. Dragons and men screamed. 

Walter belly crawled through the mire, whispering, "Get ready. I'm calling for backup through the tooth transmitter."

​"Go for it." 

From the Mouth of Elijah 
(Children of the Bard, Book 2)
by Bryan Davis

In From the Mouth of Elijah, Lauren and Billy set out on a journey to find Bonnie, hoping Lauren's gifted hearing can track down Bonnie's never-ending song. At the same time, Walter and Ashley search for clues to cure a mysterious disease that threatens to kill the original anthrozils, including Jared, who was once the great Clefspeare.

Both journeys are fraught with peril as Lauren and Matt are thrust into Second Eden, where a volcano, Mount Elijah, has erupted and devastated the land, killing many of the residents. Matt uses his gifts of healing to save some of the victims, and when he finds Bonnie, he engages in another life-or-death battle with Tamiel's forces in an attempt to free her.

In the meantime, Lauren learns that she is the only person who believes the cure to be possible, so she beings a search for it. Along the way, she gains an unusual companion who prepares her for a heart-wrenching decision. Her choice is simple: Sacrifice her own life or let the anthrozils die. 

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Q winged shadow flitted by the motel room window, first one way, then the other, like an animated silhouette painted on the drapes. Matt lifted from his pillow and propped himself on an elbow. Was it a bird? If so, it had to be a big one, maybe an owl sweeping past. Yet, bird or not, something had ignited the danger alarm in his gut. No more sleeping, at least not until the sensation eased. 

From the partially closed bathroom, a narrow shaft of light illuminated the area, revealing a TV, desk, dresser, and two beds. Matt lay in the one closer to the window, while his mother and Darcy slept in the other. The pairing seemed odd--a winged woman of incomparable faith slumbering next to a young prostitute fresh from a street corner--strange bedfellows indeed. 

The Seventh Door (Children of the Bard, Book 3)
by Bryan Davis

An apocalypse approaches, and only Matt Bannister and his mother, Bonnie, can stop it. Forced to participate in the demon Tamiel's scheme, Matt, Bonnie, and Darcy must travel to seven destinations. Behind each of the seven doors, they find a unique brand of evil that is designed to weaken Bonnie's soul-healing song and bring about God's wrath upon Earth. 

In the meantime, Matt's twin sister, Lauren, searches for their father, Billy Bannister, who has been captured by Tamiel's soldiers. Lauren is accompanied by Walter, Ashley, and the dragoness Roxil in a desperate attempt to rescue Billy before his captors can carry out their plan to kill him.

Since Sapphira Adi has also been abducted, Elam, Yereq, Makaidos, and Thigocia travel toward a stronghold designed to keep Sapphira's fiery powers under control. Along the way, a great disaster strikes that threatens their journey as well as Matt's and Lauren's hopes to complete their missions.

By the time Matt and his companions reach the final destination, ancient mysteries are solved, dark secrets come to light, and the learn that opening the door will bring doom upon the planet. Yet, a great tragedy befalls the company, and the only remedy is to seek the power that lies behind the Seventh Door. 

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Frozen faces, pale and grim, lay sealed under a sheet of ice--lost...forlorn...without purpose.

Or so they seemed.

Standing at the edge of the reservoir, Merlin kept his stare on the nebulous faces, soulless phantasms that held no thoughts as they drifted in misty swirls under the icy surface. Mindless or not, they were a bit more animated than usual. Perhaps a newly slain martyr had recently infused a surge of energy into this sacred pool. 

He pushed the bottom end of his walking staff into the thick ice. Radiance surrounded the smooth acacia wood and rode upward until it reached a candlestone wedged within a triple fork at the top. The candlestone, a crystalline gem about the size of his thumb, absorbed the light, made it spin around its dark core, and sent it out again in a dim yellow beam parallel to the floor. 

Omega Dragon (Children of the Bard, Book 4)
by Bryan Davis

Matt Bannister carries the corpse of his twin sister, Lauren, into Abaddon's lair, the wellspring of resurrection power. Along with Listener, he hopes to solve the mystery of this sacred chamber and restore Lauren's life. When he reads from Abaddon's secret resurrection book, disaster strikes, and he and Listener are forced to seek a different path where they are faced with another catastrophe--an ice storm laced with a villain's potion that threatens to kill every inhabitant of Second Eden.

In the meantime, Marilyn Bannister seeks a way to enter Second Eden. She must restore the great dragon Clefspeare so that he can battle Arramos, the draconic manifestation of Satan. Arramos has been capturing and killing children as a way to bring God's wrath upon the Earth, and only Clefspeare is powerful enough to stop him.

Transporting Clefspeare into Second Eden is possible, and only Sapphira Adi, the great Oracle of Fire, is able to open the secret portal to that world. While in the midst of apocalyptic destruction, Sapphira, Elam, Billy, Bonnie, Walter, and Ashley battle Arramos as he tries to thwart their plans and enter Second Eden himself. His goal? Complete annihilation of the world. 

Heroes and heroines fight evil in order to save helpless innocents from Arramos as he kills, maims, and destroys. All seems lost against this unholy terror, and their only hope is the restoration of Clefspeare, the Omega Dragon.