Under an Azure Sky - Elysia Dayne: Book One

They call me…Hero…Mercenary…Dragon Slayer.But that wasn’t always the case.There was a time when I thought that dragons were beautiful...During my childhood, I believed that I was friends with a dragon, except the dragon never knew of this friendship.Days after my thirteenth birthday, my secret was no longer mine to keep. Soldiers arrived to slay the dragon so that a feudal lord could make his name amongst the Nine Kingdoms. It ended in abject failure. They were left to soak in a bloodbath of their own making.In a rage, the dragon destroyed the place that I called home, and killed the people that I called family. She also dismantled a thing that I called love.Reborn under a mound of ashen corpses, my empty shell vowed vengeance, forging a fiery path of retribution that could not be undone.Not by my own design, I inadvertently became a slayer of dragons. Curiously, dragon slaying isn’t my next job...A princess is being held for ransom at a goblin fort. Wearing the stolen armour of a goblin knight, I attempt to rescue her to claim my prize.When I met her, she was Winter. Now, she is Spring. Maybe I can learn to love again…An award-winning literary epic fantasy novel. Winner of the "Global (Asia)" and "Fantasy" categories in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2021-2022 and Winner of the Sword & Sorcery category in the Global Book Awards 2022.