The Young Dread When she s awake in the world the Young Dread can hear an enemy approach from a mile away manipulate a whipsword into a thousand forms and attack with it faster than the human eye can see And yet
When she s awake in the world, the Young Dread can hear an enemy approach from a mile away, manipulate a whipsword into a thousand forms, and attack with it faster than the human eye can see.And yet, the Young Dread is not often awake She, like the Old and the Middle Dreads, lives outside the stream of time, frozen for vast stretches She was a child in the 1400s, but sheWhen she s awake in the world, the Young Dread can hear an enemy approach from a mile away, manipulate a whipsword into a thousand forms, and attack with it faster than the human eye can see.And yet, the Young Dread is not often awake She, like the Old and the Middle Dreads, lives outside the stream of time, frozen for vast stretches She was a child in the 1400s, but she s alive today, and aged only into a teen.She wakes for short bursts, to observe the training of the families known as Seekers Past and future intertwine in Seeker traditions they are the keepers of both ancient knowledge and advanced weapons and the Dreads must oversee it all, testing their skills, swearing them to loyalty, bringing them justice.Master storyteller Arwen Elys Dayton takes readers centuries into the past to follow this ageless Dread s footsteps This time, when the Young Dread wakes, things will change She is about to discover the first threads of a web in which she and so many others will be trapped.A ruthless killer to some, an enigmatic upholder of justice to others, the Young Dread is destined to shape the future in ways she is only beginning to understand.
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Arwen Elys Dayton
Arwen Elys Dayton is hard at work on the SEEKER series, a grand YA story for Random House.Arwen began her career as a teenage staff writer at a foundation that produced Peabody Award winning educational shows for PBS Soon afterward, she began writing screenplays and novels, including Sovereign s Hold and Resurrection, the 1 bestseller in Sci Fi in both the US and the UK.She spends months doing research for her stories Her explorations have taken her around the world to places like the Great Pyramid which she explored by flashlight when researching Resurrection , Hong Kong and its many islands, and lots of ruined castles in Scotland She enjoys creating complete worlds inhabited by characters who charm, frustrate or inspire.Arwen lives with her husband and their three children on the West Coast of the United States You can visit her at arwendayton and follow arwenelysdayton on Twitter and Instagram, or reach her by email at arwenelysdayton gmail.She is represented by Jodi Reamer at Writers House.