John Lucy Ash

John Lucy Ash is the debut author of the first book in The Dragonbinder Chronicles, called The Nexus Prince.

Harvey Chandler has always seen things others can't: bioluminescent moss creeping

across his apartment walls, a miniature purple dragon named Spitfire drooling glittery

slime on his shoulder, and the crystalline spires of a magical city layered directly over

Madison, Wisconsin. His therapist calls it a dissociative coping mechanism. His

medication fills the gaps with static. Harvey calls it Tuesday.

A nineteen-year-old foster kid with no family and exactly zero friends, Harvey has

spent his whole life on the outside of everything. Then a car accident lands him in the

hospital, a dying dragon brands the word DRAGONBINDER into his mind, and a

gaunt, spectacle-cycling archivist named Linus pulls him through a petrified-wood

door into the Aetherium, the magical realm that has always existed just beneath the

surface of the ordinary world.

The prophecy says Harvey is the one person who can stop a technomancer named

Turing from converting the Aetherium's living magic into programmable energy, using

a captive dragon as a battery. But Harvey's power doesn't work the way prophecies

usually promise. He can't command. He can't conquer. He can only connect.

Part Douglas Adams absurdity, part genuine heartbreak, The Nexus Prince is a story

about a young man who spent his whole life being told his perception of the world was

broken, discovering that it might be the only thing that can save it.

humorous fantasy novella, found family fantasy, grief and healing fantasy, Douglas

Adams style fantasy, parallel worlds fantasy, dragons and magic fantasy, coming of

age fantasy, heartfelt fantasy adventure, funny fantasy with emotional depth, dual

reality fantasy, foster child hero fantasy, quirky fantasy with heart, fantasy about

belonging and friendship, urban fantasy parallel world, dragons found family humor,

fantasy novella series, emotional fantasy with comedy, fourth wall breaking fantasy,

reluctant hero fantasy, bittersweet fantasy adventure