Release Day: The Bane of Dragons

Today is release day for the fourth and final volume of The Allison Lee Chronicles! When I first started my writerly journey, one of my goals was to complete an epic fantasy series…well, I ended up writing a YA urban fantasy series! Bucket list item checked!

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Release Day: The Bane of Dragons

Praise for The Bane of Dragons

Barnes & Noble selected The Bane of Dragons as a Top Indie Favorite. Mind blown! I am officially pleased as a peach. Of course, I think highly of all my books—at least those that have escaped the cloud and dodged the round file—but I'm not surprised this one is getting a little extra recognition. I've pulled out all the stops in Allison's latest adventure, and it's a wild one.

Worried about starting with the fourth book in the series? Have no fear! Just look at what Midwest Book Review has to say (yes, I am completely swept off my feet!):

"Newcomers to Allison’s story may assume, from this book’s position in the series, that prior knowledge is a prerequisite to enjoying her latest adventure, but Dan Rice opens the tale with a seamless review of Allison’s position that immediately places all readers on an equal level of appreciating her spunk, determination, and unusual background:

Rain burns my eyes like they’re dipped in battery acid. The roaring wind whips a brine through the air. It’s times like this that I hate being a half-skaag, a shapeshifting alien-human hybrid. Sure, I can fly as a skaag, but my impossible dream is just to be Allison Lee, a teen surviving high school hell. Fat chance of that.

Rice employs vivid language throughout these first-person experiences, from “yawning doorways” and “lithe draconic body parts flickering into and out of existence” to androgynous golems, fairy boys, and thermal vents.

The action-packed confrontations are heightened by new realizations about these creatures, worlds, and the nature of friends and enemies as Allison tackles many obstacles beyond her ken and control, against clashing magic and non-magical forces.

Rice’s ability to inject astute reflections on team-building, creative problem-solving, and impossible scenarios keeps the action fast-paced, the characters bold, assertive, and realistic, and the missions clear and compelling.

Teens seeking fantasies that hold many twists and turns and delightfully unexpected conclusions and results will relish how The Bane of Dragonsmoves Allison through new challenges, neatly concludes the latest story, yet leaves the door well ajar for more adventures."

What is The Bane of Dragons all about?

Monstrous forces from across the multiverse have set their eyes upon Earth to create a beachhead in the universe humanity calls home. The problem with that? Humans will be enslaved…and used as food stock for skaags, ravenous shapeshifting super soldiers.

Allison, a teenage alien human hybrid, is humanity’s only hope. She must travel the slipstream, the super highway through the multiverse, to bring the conflict to the enemy’s turf. With a crack squad of miscreants as allies, she does just that, but the plan goes awry.

They end up as the prisoners of angry terrestrial octopi. Their attempts at negotiation only see them handed over to General Bane, the skaag supreme military commander feared throughout the multiverse. Allison discovers that to save everyone she loves, she must unravel the magic binding General Bane and his kind to their overlords. To accomplish that, she must face her greatest fear, herself.

The Ailison Lee Chronicles

Don't forget, as of today, the entire series is available!!!!

What's next for Allison?

Well, Allison's Chronicles are finished. I think I've done a darn good job wrapping up her tale, but as pointed out by Midwest Book Review, the door is still ajar more yarns. I'll never say, never, but I don't have plans for more Allison Lee books. I might one day write something in say..."The Allison Lee Extended Univerise." Maybe a story or two of Joe investigating wayward magicicians, Jett traveling the multiverse in search of the lost ones, or Radcliffe leading the dragon rebellion. Perhaps one day, but not one day soon…