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Summary

​Companion trilogy to Davis’s Dragons of Starlight fantasy series, following the older brother. 
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Stats

Genre: YA (16+ years) high fantasy 

Series length: Three books, plus companion four-book series (Dragons of Starlight)

Violence: Moderate fantasy violence

Magic/Supernatural: Moderate supernatural

Romance: Moderate 

Christian/spiritual element: Overt allegorical elements

Recommendation: Excellent for those 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.

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Opening Lines:

Never make a women bleed, my son.

Adrian stood at his corner of the tourney ring, tightening his grip on the hilt of his sword as he listed to silent echoes of his father's words.

If you draw your sword against those you were born to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come to take them away?

Masters & Slayers (Tales of Starlight, Book 1)
by Bryan Davis

Expert swordsman Adrian Masters attempts a dangerous journey to another world to rescue human captives who have been enslaved there by dragons. He is accompanied by Marcelle, a sword maiden of amazing skill whose ideas about how the operation should be carried out conflict with his own.

Since the slaves have been in bonds for generations, they have no memory of their origins, making them reluctant to believe the two would-be rescuers, and, of course, the dragons will crush any attempt to emancipate the slaves. Set on two worlds separated by a mystical portal,Masters and Slayers is packed with action.

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Darkness is a robe that cloaks an eerie choir, and sleepless is the protector of the innocent. Adrian sat against a wide cypress trunk, listening to the swamp's chorus--the clacking of branches tossed by a wet breeze, the trilling of crickets nestled under rotting logs, and the stirring of marsh water that veiled serpents and other nocturnal predators, restless at the presence of a human intruder. 

As a faint splash sounded, he tightened his grip on the hilt of his sword, his usual response. No matter how many times he reminded himself that countless frogs and bugs hopped from place to place, the slightest noise raised a reflexive twitch, an instinctive call to protect the girls in his care. 

Third Starlighter (Tales of Starlight, Book 2)
by Bryan Davis

In this second book of the Tales of Starlight series, Adrian Masters journeys into the wilderness of the dragon planet of Starlight in search of his brother Frederick. Carrying the comatose body of Marcelle, he has to find medical help for her, but the slave master dragons will kill him on sight if he comes out of hiding.
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Adrian believes Frederick has set up a wilderness refuge for escaped slaves, so he hopes to join Frederick and devise a plan to rescue the humans enslaved on Starlight. Since Adrian cannot leave Marcelle alone, her nearly lifeless body becomes an anchor, both physically and emotionally as he has to decide to care for her or attempt to rescue the slaves.

Adrian has no idea that Marcelle’s spirit has left her body and has traveled to their home planet in search of military help to rescue the slaves. She is able to materialize there in a temporary body that looks corpselike and feels icy cold. Because of her appearance, Governor Orion persecutes her as a sorceress and sentences her to burn at the stake.

This sequel to Masters & Slayers is filled with excitement, twists and turns, and thought-provoking dilemmas, which will keep readers turning the pages.

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Does a corpse care how loving hands lay her in the ground's embrace? Adrian smoothed out the dirt over Regina's shallow grave. With no tombstone available in this uninhabited land between the southern dragon kingdom and the Northlands, no one would ever guess that the body of a petite Starlighter rested here. Only thousands of surrounding flowers would pay homage to the little blind girl, nodding their heads as the breeze whispered about her courageous acts, her indomitable spirit, and her sacrifical love.

Shellinda and Wallace knelt at the opposite side of the grave, both with tears tracking down their dirty faces and grass staining trousers. Their rolled-up sleeves reveal grime covering their arms as well, interrupted in spots by a rash--the telltale sign of the fatal disease plaguing nearly all of Starlight. 

Exodus Rising (Tales of Starlight, Book 3)
by Bryan Davis

In this third book of the Tales of Starlight series, Adrian Masters continues his relentless march toward the bitterly cold Northlands of Starlight. Ravaged by a deadly disease and accompanied by two children, Adrian carries Marcelle in a vegetative state, hoping Alaph, king of the Northlands, will supply a way to reunite her near-death body with her wandering spirit.

Time is of the essence. Invading soldiers from Major Four are marching toward the Southlands village to do battle against the dragon slave masters, but two great dangers await—the inescapable disease and the unpredictable Benefile, ageless and mysterious white dragons who will kill any infected humans.

All the while, Drexel, the murderer of Marcelle’s mother, has taken on an impervious disguise as a male Starlighter and is using hypnotic powers to gain control of Mesolantrum with his sights set on the entire kingdom. Adrian and Marcelle must battle to free the slaves on one world and protect their own world from Drexel’s malevolent plan or else the freed slaves will return to Major Four only to find another slave master. Performing both tasks seems impossible.