Age: 28
male
Luke Rands is an american gymnast, dancer, singer, actor and theatre performer. A native of Cary, Illinois, Music Dance Theatre (MDT) student Luke Rands found his passion for performance early in life. Rands trained as a competitive gymnast for six years before finding that he had a talent for dancing and acting. Rands then signed up for dance classes and got involved with his high school’s musicals and show choir. Thus was his love for musical theatre born. Since then, he's featured in multiple plays and musicals, including Little Women, the Phantom Tollbooth, Shrek the Musical, Annie Jr. and more. As a dancer, he's so far had 3.5 years of experience/technical training in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, and Hip Hop- Amy Krigas (Cary-Grove Performing Arts Centre), 8 years of piano study, 6 years of gymnastics training and 3.5 years of voice lessons (plus 5 years of experience in church as well as curricular choir). He's also talented in swing choir (piano, vocals, dance) and pas de deux dance.
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Alliances will be forged. Lives will be lost. Traitors will become allies... or even lovers. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
