Mountain Bond

an Epic Fantasy Series

It all started with Aelra of Clan Stormcrest, who reached for a silver-scaled dragon during a storm she should not have survived, and found something reaching back.
What began as desperate necessity became the foundation mountain society still stands on— neural synchronization, and a partnership that grants both species abilities neither could achieve alone. At a price.

A hundred years before the Guild’s grip tightens over Dimidium, and the world Ryn and Eskarith inhabit gives way to the one readers meet in the Abyssal Gold trilogy, the Mountain Clans need to weather one of their greatest ages of conflict: the fight for power, the fight for their way of life. The fight for a Bond.

This is the story of this bond — the choice that formed it, and the repercussions that outlast it. Book One, The Severance, opens with a rider that shouldn’t have survived its dragon’s death, and the grief, transformation, and political fallout that follow.
Book Two, The Bond, continues forward, as the same choice Ryn made keeps shaping what comes after it.

The Guild’s presence in these events is not incidental. What Ryn and Eskarith survive here becomes part of the foundation the Guild builds on — the beginning of their claim that their matrix technology and crystal extraction aren’t exploitation, but restoration: giving humanity back the direct magical access the Separation took away.

Content note: Mountain Bond is a work of fantasy dealing with adult themes throughout the series, including racism, cultural appropriation, dehumanization, and experimentation on sentient beings, alongside grief, death, body transformation, and political conspiracy. Specific content warnings are provided for each individual book.

Mountain Bond features LGBTQ+ characters and relationships throughout as an integral part of society.