Who is Lucy Greydell?
Lucy Greydell, is the author of Ashborn, a psychologically driven speculative novel combining dragon mythology, political intrigue, and emotional suspense.
Drawing from her background as a veteran of the United States Army and academic training through a Master of Divinity degree, her work explores institutional power, propaganda, hierarchy, trauma, and the psychological consequences of systems protecting themselves.
What if both the official doctrine and the myths on which the world was built were completely wrong?
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To what lengths would those in power go to protect the official story?
Ashborn
Ashborn follows frontier-born soldier Dareya Calderin who was entered into the brutal Crucible at the last minute to replace a disqualified candidate despite having no place among the elite women expected to inherit the future of the Dragon Rider Command due to lack of noble blood and lack of high ranking patronage.
What initially appears to be a standard military-pairing bond formed with the last and physically smallest dragon to descend quickly spirals into a dangerous struggle involving political manipulation, institutional control, surveillance systems, and the psychological consequences of human-dragon bonding.
When political forces move to dismantle the Dragon Riders and destroy the dragons themselves, her bond becomes evidence, threat, weapon, and is rumored to be tied to the forbidden legend of the Ashborn, trapping her at the center of a conflict capable of destabilizing the social order of the world.
The Shadow Lineage centers on power, inheritance, and the destabilizing bonds between dragon sovereigns and their Riders.
The Shadow Lineage Substack
Ashborn is the first book of The Shadow Lineage, an original series created by Lucy Greydell and owned by Obricon Adventures, LLC.
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