Hunted

Twins Tren and Tif don’t believe in dragons. ‎Which is unfortunate because they’re hereditary ‎dragonfighters. ‎

All their lives since they were old enough to ‎understand, Tifan and his sister Tirulen have been ‎trained by their father, honing their bodies and their ‎minds, learning to fight hand-to-hand, with weapons ‎and with magic, all to prepare them to face the ‎dragonriders and their huge, fire-breathing beasts.‎

Except that there are no dragons. No dragon has ‎been seen for two hundred years, since the ‎dragonriders were defeated and all the dragons were ‎killed. As if the weight of all that family history and ‎expectation aren’t enough, they’re doing it for ‎nothing. Their crazy father is forcing them to train to ‎meet a foe that no longer exists.‎

Tren rebels and heads for the town where she ‎hopes to build a normal life away from all the ‎craziness. But when both she and her brother are ‎attacked by some fairly serious-looking people and ‎they return home to find their entire village burned to ‎the ground, they realise they were wrong.‎

The dragons do still exist, and they and the ‎dragonrider folk are on the move again, and ‎apparently, after them. Along with the father that they ‎now realise isn’t crazy after all, the twins must try to ‎make it to the dragonfighter stronghold, the only place ‎they will be safe, pursued all the way by a group of ‎ruthless dragonrider assassins and hunted from the air ‎by dragons.‎

Although a story in its own right, "Hunted" is also ‎the first part of a classic, epic fantasy trilogy.‎