First Rider's Call

core novel 2003 Green Rider

Record

First published	2003
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.19 (14,470 ratings, collected 2026-08-27)
Page count	596
First-edition ISBN	9780743408943

Synopsis

First Rider's Call continues Karigan's story as she now serves as one of the king's elite Green Rider messengers in Sacor City. Her return to duty coincides with troubling signs that the D'Yer Wall, which has shielded the kingdom of Sacoridia from the corrupted Blackveil Forest for over a thousand years, is beginning to weaken. As dark magic starts to seep through the breach, strange and violent phenomena spread through the borderlands, including animals turned to stone and entire villages vanishing without explanation. The unraveling wall destabilizes the Green Riders as well as the wider kingdom, forcing Karigan and her colleague Mara into greater responsibility even as Karigan discovers she carries a wild, unpredictable magic of her own, one that draws unwanted attention from the ancient evil stirring beyond the crumbling wall.

Where it sits

• Universe: Green Rider
• Series: Green Rider core; position 2 of 8 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Kristen Britain

Notes

• From the series record (Green Rider): The main numbered sequence; the author has stated there is no fixed final book count. A ninth novel is scheduled for 2027 and is not yet published, so not registered.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within the series Green Rider: position 2 of 8: previous Green Rider (1998) · next The High King's Tomb (2007)

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Rider
• https://kristenbritain.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Rider%27s_Call

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