Dragonhorse Rising: The Dragonhorse Chronicles Book 1

He came to be known as World Winner. Most Merciful Firstlord. Greatest of the Dragonhorses. Monster. Murderer. But before that, before ten thousand years of tradition forced him to trade a life that was rich and real and comfortable for the destiny he was bred to, he was a teacher, a father, a husband grieving the loss of the only woman he had ever loved.

Born and raised in anonymity, he couldn't have known his fate. He expected certainty and instead found himself the hope of his people - the most powerful single entity in the known galaxy, ruling the most unassailable eleven planets in the Seventh Galactic Alliance. And at the center, mighty Equus, agricultural powerhouse, oldest of the civilized planets, his to rule. All that glory in the blink of an eye, and he was not the one who wanted it.

And thus begins the story of how one very surprised individual found his future, and his future found him, and bound him. What he did and how he did it. Who he loved, and who he killed.

Showandah S. Terrill is an award winning speaker and storyteller as well as a lifelong writer and equestrian. Steeped in Native American culture, she was raised as the only child of an itinerant cowhand on sprawling ranches in Southern California during the turbulent 1960's. She is currently writing two extended series, the epic Dragonhorse Chronicles, and the fictional autobiographical Peter Aarons novels.

Jeremy T. Hanke is a writer and editor in Lexington, KY. When he's not editing or working in IT, he teaches karate and self-defense to survivors of domestic abuse. He and his purple-haired wife, Kari, have a number of children (some biological and most not), as well as Clementine--a half-tailed Bearded Dragon that believes she's a squirrel--and an extremely curious cat with big ears that's recently been renamed from Maurice to Mo Fortuna.