Following her adventures in Green Rider, Karigan G'ladheon decided to return to her old life as the daughter of a wealthy merchant. However the First Green Rider Lil Ambriodhe, despite being dead for many years, has a different plan in mind. She knows that Karigan's true destiny lies with the Green Riders.

A year later Karigan has been trained in her new calling and has joined fellow Riders protecting the King's envoys from attacks by the Eletians. Soon she, and the other Riders, become aware that the Green Rider Corps are falling apart. For the first time there are unclaimed brooches in the Rider headquarters and their magical abilities have begun to fail them.

It seems that no one has the power to save the Green Riders and restore them to their former glory. No one, that is, until Karigan is contacted by the spirit of the First Rider and finds herself with the unenviable task of finding the truth behind the disruption of the Rider's powers and discovering a means of bringing the Riders back together.

When a new author produces a work of such quality as Green Rider, especially when it is a first novel, I always wonder if the publishing of a second is going to be revealed as a fluke, a one-off. With Kirsten Britain I need not have worried. If anything, First Rider's Call is better than Green Rider and I would not have believed that to be possible! It would have been easy for the story to begin with Karigan as a natural Green Rider, finding her new responsibilities coming to her easily. However this is not the case. At the start she has tried to return to her old life but when she is summoned by the First Rider she finds the call impossible to resist.

Karigan doesn't find life as a Green Rider comes easily. Not only does she have to learn the physical price of being a Rider she also has to learn how to control her talent. At the same time she seems to be reliving the First Rider's life in a dreamlike state.

This novel had everything. A stirring storyline, vivid characters and just enough magic to weave a glorious technicolour tapestry. A stunning book that gripped me from the very first page and had me laughing out loud whilst wondering if the Riders would be able to regroup and rediscover their previous glory. I cannot wait for the next instalment – presuming (hoping) there is one, of course.