The Burden of Faith (Dragon Bond Book 2)
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The Burden of Faith (Dragon Bond Book 2) by Damon J. Courtney
Or so everyone in Omaha thinks. In reality, Oliver's a mad evil genius on his way to world domination, and he's used his great brain to make himself the third-richest person on earth! Then Oliver's father, and archnemesis, makes a crack about the upcoming middle school election, and Oliver takes it as a personal challenge. He'll run, and he'll win! Turns out, though, that overthrowing foreign dictators is actually way easier than getting kids to like you.
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- The Burden of Faith.
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- The Change.
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Even as her dragon is born and the lifelong bond formed, the world shifts beneath her feet. For Elody and her brother Rinn, the life they had always imagined for themselves is no longer to be. Each one of us good men trying to ward off the cold and the evil in this world. But there will always be more night than fires to light it. Unseen by the world, in glory to the blood god, the goblin hordes have amassed and are ready to march.
Behind the curtains, a dark leader moves the players like pieces on a board. And after a hundred years of sleep and a thousand years of waiting, a new evil is awakened. For Elody and Rinn, the lives they imagined changed the day their village was burned and their father murdered. But as they struggle to discover their place in the world, they find themselves manipulated like every other piece. No matter the side, no matter the cost, everyone is fighting with the most powerful weapon imaginable. Anarr has been playing this game for a very long time.