Elana A. Mugdan

Elana A. Mugdan writes teen epic fantasy and created the Shadow War Saga around Keriya Nameless, a girl born without magic in the world of Allentria. Dragon Child and Dragon Blood continue that sequence as its second and third books. Across the saga, Keriya’s lack of magical ability is treated by her society as a disability, yet she is drawn into the effort to protect the last living dragon and confront threats to her world. The two assigned volumes therefore belong to a continuing character arc rather than separate dragon stories. Series records place Dragon Child after Dragon Speaker, with Dragon Blood carrying Keriya’s journey into the next stage of the conflict. Mugdan builds the books around resilience, friendship, responsibility, and the cost of proving oneself in a culture that measures worth through inherited power. Their connected positions matter for readers because relationships, discoveries, and earlier choices accumulate across the Shadow War Saga instead of resetting with each volume.