Showing results for title "The Dragon" in Women's Fiction

May Northcott is a woman at the end of her rope. She’d almost gotten used to her employer, the ex-demon lord Magoth, spending his days hanging around her home and interrupting her private moments with her lover, Gabriel. Then trouble appears on her doorstep in the form of a nearly dead man. With May fighting to control the dragon shard, Magoth wrangling to regain his position and powers, and a mysterious and deadly dragon bent on their destruction, Gabriel has his work cut out for him.

Billionaire dragon, Asher Princeton is a single dad and secret dragon-shifter. He just wants to get away from it all to spend time with his young son over the summer. Its time he showed the boy how to deal with being a dragonling. Daryl Livingston is squatting in his guest house. The young woman makes his dragon come alive. The last thing he expected was to find his true mate living in his guest house. Only problem...it’s going to take everything in Asher’s power to convince her of that.

At the urging of a Los Angeles detective, international rights lawyer Anna Carlson assists in a murder investigation. It’s a personal request from Suk-bo Yi, a ninety-nine-year-old woman questioned in a mysterious death at a Koreatown nursing home. A stranger to Anna, Suk-bo has a tale to tell. For reasons of her own, she’s chosen Anna - only Anna - to hear it...

Macy is in big trouble. Once every hundred years, a virgin must be sacrificed to the fearsome dragon who lives on the mountaintop overlooking the village, and the oracle has chosen Macy. The fate of her people rests on her shoulders, but legend has it that no virgin has ever emerged from the mountaintop once being given to the dragon. That’s why they’re called sacrifices. Macy doesn’t want to condemn her people, but she refuses to take all this lying down. Fearsome dragon? Bring it on. She’s determined to find a way to charm this dragon while saving her village—and herself—in ...

Re-edited 9-8-2023 I'm called by many names. The savior, the thief, but I prefer my actual name—Diamond Sharpe. My story should have started with my great-great-grandmother, but it doesn't. My grandmother, Monique, was a brave 18-year-old who saved a dragon and her three eggs, not knowing that the Jaded dragon was the Queen of dragons with incredible abilities. To reward Monique for risking her life to save three eggs from death, the Queen gifted her with two abilities that no other human had. The gift of sight is to see as one of her dragons at night, and the gift of mental communication...

For generations, the Lenore women have manufactured a fragrance unlike any other. Hidden in the quiet rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, their perfumery guards unique and mysterious ingredients. A secret known only to a select clientele of movie stars, politicians, artists, and CEOs, the Lenores' signature elixir is the key to success for the world's most powerful women. Capturing the essence of sisterhood with the sweetness of flowers, Season of the Dragonflies is a beguiling tale of practical magic, old secrets, and new love.

"Mientras yo coloreaba uno de los mandalas relajantes de Amanda, un dragón alado se puso a revolotear por encima de mi cabeza y nada pudo hacer ella por asustarlo, porque consiguió acercarse a mi oído y susurrarme suavemente una verdad absoluta y necesaria para comprender los embustes de la vida".

Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin was renowned for her beauty: the ultimate seductress. Now she lives quietly alone - until the most ruthless warlord in the region comes and steals her away... Li Tao lives by the sword and is trapped in a web of politics, at the centre of which is Ling Suyin. Can he uncover her mystery without falling under the spell of her innocence and beauty?

My husband sent pics of his eggplant to every woman in Florida. And once I caught on, it was time to divorce the pig. I packed up the RV we’d planned to drive cross-country together, and headed off on an adventure, all on my own. I rolled to a stop in Carlton after finding a paramedic job.

Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War vet living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and a sweet-tempered rescue mutt for a roommate. She also has Chinese Domestic Security on her tail and a dwindling number of Percocets to get her through her bad days.

She swore she would never marry a rich man! As a private nurse to wealthy spoiled people, Constantia had seen the misery too much money could bring. Jeroen van der Giessen, though, was only a poor overworked GP, so when she found herself stranded without money or passport, and Jeroen offered marriage, Constantia accepted.

The dark tale of love continues as the population of female slaves has diminished to critical levels and the king of the dark dragon shifters has devised a devious plan. Panic has spread throughout Erith as the king's rampage to ferret out the light shifters increases suspicion among dragon brothers on both sides of the battle as they no longer know who they can trust.