Book excerpt: While living with her gran, sixteen-year-old Deelind's life changes when her curiosity leads her to follow some strange-looking creatures into a magical burrow. Here she discovers a world that lives just beyond the one she knows. It is a land of dragons, elves, witches, molers, and other mythical creatures. Against all odds Deelind melds with a dragon to become a featherlite. It seems she has a destiny to fulfil, but there is a dark force trying to stop her. With the use of dark magic, Blackthorn, Princess Lee's malicious half-brother, wages war on Brakenhill to take the Dragon Kingdom throne. Will Deelind fulfil her destiny and stop Blackthorn?