It's been a difficult year for fifteen-year-old Garith Wynd. In the aftermath of his father's sudden suicide, he's moved with his family into a stuffy camper in the Virginian forests during the hottest month of the year.
About the only good thing to come from the move are Garith's new friends, the inseparable Selena and Blaine. The three friends arrange a campout, but Garith is sidetracked when he comes face-to-face with a terrifying creature ripped from the pages of Arthurian lore-the Beast Glatisant. The only thing standing between him and a grisly death is the alluring White Knight, a shape-shifting enchantress who happens to be the family cat.
Hurled into a fantastical world where knights battle witches, Golems, and forgotten evils, Garith discovers he's the Dragonstone Protector, tasked with safeguarding an artifact capable of healing or destroying dragonkind-a relic an ancient enemy of the Round Table will do anything to possess.
Surrounded on all sides by unfathomable danger, Garith has no choice but to trust the knights. But even within the ranks of his new allies, treachery lurks. Unless Garith can discover who's trying to kill him, his legend as the Dragonstone Protector will come to an end.
About the Author: Kyle R. Zeller has loved fantasy since he was a kid, when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone introduced him to the joy of magical worlds.
His experience living in a small trailer in Virginia during the stifling summer at the age of thirteen led him to invent a mythical world of knights and warlocks as a form of escape. These stories, combined with his deep and involved research into Arthurian legend, serve as the background for Knights of the Withering Flame.
Zeller graduated from Ferrum College in Virginia in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in psychology. He currently resides in Roanoke, Virginia. Zeller has two younger brothers and loving parents who have always encouraged him to follow his dreams.
