2022 Readers’ Favorite Award Winner for YA Urban Fantasy. Susan L Markloff is a rising YA Fantasy author. Upon devouring fantastical worlds as a child, she often spent her days playing make-believe and spinning stories with friends and family. At the age of 19, she wrote what would become the first draft of her debut novel, The Rise of the Raidin. While at Houghton College, she cultivated a love for the written word, and majored in Creative Writing. There she was encouraged by other aspiring authors and by her professors to hone her skills and write the best version of her stories. The Rise of the Raidin, book 1 of The Human-Born Era, is the first of the five book series.
Jennifer Monroe is an average eighteen-year-old girl, and she knows it.
Which is precisely why no one-least of all herself-would suspect anything extraordinary from the quiet, boring girl who only has a few good friends to call her own. But that all got flipped on its head about a year ago, when two imposing men, a complete goofball, a werewolf, and two large four-legged creatures barged into her life.
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Now over a year later, Jen leads a double life. Mild mannered, quiet, high schooler by day; dragon slayer and raw-energy-wielding-warrior (in training) by night. Juggling SAT scores, papers, and mastering the art of flying, she's managed to keep her friends and family oblivious of her hybrid abilities and continue on a track for college. Everything was going swimmingly.
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Until one normal, foggy, November morning, when a dragon crashed through the clouds, heralding a small army to descend on her high school.
All for little, forgettable her.
Making her realize that maybe there's a whole lot more going on than she originally thought.