title: Trusted: Dragons' Trust Book 1 (Volume 1)
author:  Krista Wayment 
description: Krista Wayment has been making up stories since she learned to talk. Writing naturally grew out of that. Krista is an avid Fantasy and Science Fiction fan, and a total nerd. She is also a software engineer and loves playing video games. Although, curling up with a good book is still one of her favorite past times.
zlib_text: # Introduction to the Open Access Edition of Broken Trust
  
  Judge Samuel P. King and I wrote _Broken Trust_ to help protect the legacy of
  Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. We assigned all royalties to local charities,
  donated thousands of copies to libraries and high schools, and posted source
  documents to [BrokenTrustBook.com](http://www.BrokenTrustBook.com) . Below,
  the Kamehameha Schools trustees explain their decision to support the open
  access edition, which makes it readily available to the public. That they
  chose to do so would have delighted Judge King immensely, as it does me.
  Mahalo nui loa to them and to University of Hawai‘i Press for its cooperation
  and assistance.
  
  _Randall W. Roth, September 2017_
  
  “This year, Kamehameha Schools celebrates 130 years of educating our students
  as we strive to achieve the thriving lāhui envisioned by our founder, Ke Ali‘i
  Bernice Pauahi Bishop. We decided to participate in bringing _Broken Trust_ to
  an open access platform both to recognize an