L. Robert Pyle

Dawn Starts in the West L. Robert Pyle

Con Ataxia was a farmboy. He knew nothing of the City except as the place of Marketwhere his father sold their crops and got the finances for another season on the hardscrabble, mountain farm. He knew nothing of the Commander or the Army. He knew less about the Rebels. The Dragon and Dragon Raiders were mythical beings used by old women to make the children obeyuntil the Raiders murdered his sisters and kidnapped his father on that first day of his eighteenth Market. Then, Con had to learn quickly. He had to learn who were friends and who were enemies. He had to learn who had power and who did not. He had to learn to fightin a desperate battle for his father's soul and his own. Follow Con's journey through the Valleythrough the traps and hypocrisy of the City, through the training in the Commanders camp, to the final testing in the Dragon's Citadel. The story will keep you reading page after page. The symbols will stay with you for weeks after you've finished. The message will touch your heart.