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Stolen from her jungle home and sold to a zookeeper, Pip knows only a world behind bars, a world in which a Pygmy warrior and her giant ape friends are a zoo attraction. She dreams of being human. She dreams of escaping to the world outside her cage....

Kal Was Not A Thief, And He Certainly Did Not Intend To Steal Any Dragon’s Treasure. He was an adventurer. Avid art collector. Incurable wealth adjuster and risk-taker. Kal had legendary expertise in the security arrangements of palaces and noble houses the world over. He hankered for remote, craggy mountaintops and the dragon hoards he might find hidden beneath them. Besides, what harm was there in looking? Dragon gold was so … shiny. Most especially, he was not planning for any treasure to steal him. That was a little awkward, to say the least. >>>Author's Note Dragon Thief is a ...

Two Outcasts United By Fate. Two Terrible Secrets. One Incredible Destiny. As war convulses the ancient realm of Wyldaroon, powerful Dragon Marshals rush to choose sides in the sweeping conflict between Aranya the Star Dragoness and her nemesis, the unstoppable Marshal Thoralian. Islands fall. Nations crumble. Predatory Shapeshifters swoop to snatch the spoils from amidst the devastation. When Asturbar, a hard-bitten Infantry Commander of the Mistral Fires, is forced into a desperate act of thievery to deny Azhukazi the Necromancer Dragon the magical artefacts he covets, he unleashes an ...

Singer of Sea-Dragons. A terrible secret possesses her soul. Yet, the journey into darkness has barely begun. For the powers of nightsong, of dread and terror and pain, have laid claim upon the life-current of a girl with a matchless gift. ’Twas the current of terror we sailed that daysong, Like a Sea-Dragon’s heart was its pulse. >>>Myriad dangers lurk across the long leagues. Pirates. Treacherous Battlecats. A Hunter from the Deep and a city besieged by Sea-Dragons. The combative Bardsong of a mighty War-Titan–what are his wicked plans for her? With strength born of love, Zhialeiana...

Silent night, holy night, Sleep the Dragons on the height ... Deeper than the canyons are the secrets of the Giants. Chased into the deep Darûz by rival bands of murderous Giants, Keir and Storm find new allies to help them reach the ancient citadel of Barûd-dûm-Layura. There, they must learn the lost secrets of Dragons and their Dragon Guardians. From unexpected nuptials to whizzing about on speedboats stolen from Olde Earth, firing torpedoes and mortars at one another, the Giants like to keep things ... exciting. Aye, that's the word. At last, Keir and his diamond Dragoness will ...

Here be Sea-Dragons and salty adventure ... be warned, wayfarer. Sail these waters at your peril! I sang to the Sea; She sang back to me, Tales and travails wreathed in mystery. Imagine an island world where the seas seethe with dangerous creatures, where those rare men and women called Bard-Navigators have learned to sing Whales to protect their ships. Only on the wings of Bardsong can ships avoid the Sea-Dragons and travel the great gulf between the Atolls scattered across the World-Sea. >>>Her Song Can Move The Sea, But She Hides A Dark Secret Zhialeiana has an astonishing gift of song. ...

A secret world under the Simiens, A witch bent on a terrible revenge, Beset by troubles on all sides, the very future of Sheba is threatened. Wounded. Staked out as lion-bait. Hunted for her powers, Shioni scours the mountains for the secret Valley of the Giants, and a way back to the tunnels of Fiuriel. Can she uncover these enigmas, plumbing the hidden worlds beneath the Simiens before Kalcha’s mighty Hyenas and the Nubian army destroy the Kingdom of Sheba, and all Shioni loves? For an orphan girl of unknown heritage, the stakes have never been higher. Released from slavery into service...

Ride to battle with Shioni and her friends in the epic climax to the Shioni of Sheba series! A vast peril splits the Simien Mountains asunder, An ancient and diabolical foe, Can Shioni unite her nation to stand against? The storm of storms is rising. Returned in haste to the beleaguered Kingdom of Sheba, Shioni must unite Sheba and its allies, for the insatiable hatred of the Annihilator of Nations is tearing the mountains apart. No cage and no magic will hold him now. His breath is pestilence. The touch of his claw, death. And his name is Belshalar, the most ancient and malevolent Dragon ...

The war to decide Santaclaws’ fate has begun. United at last, the Giant nation marches to war. The Humans hole up in the Amarinthian Bulwark, desperate to hold off the Certanshi invaders until help arrives – help they pray for. Trapped in the middle of a war that will embroil and endanger all they love, Keir and Storm, the Diamond Dragoness, must fight for their future. If Santaclaws is lost, there will be no future at all. From worlds apart, the enemy reveals his hand. A dark presence rises in the swamps. The Reavers gather in numbers at the portals of Tyanbran, ready to unleash ...

True to Keir's fears, the enemy is not slow to respond to a dragon hatchling's birth. Certanshi assassins close in on his family, but they are not the only ones who want the elves of Amarinthe and his scaly diamond miracle dead and buried in the snows. The ill-prepared elves must flee through snow and winter storm to the safety of the Arabaxa Jungles. Keir leads the way through the heart of the mountains, beneath the Dragon Kings peaks, into the lair of Santaclaws himself - but many dangers lie in wait.

From flying to war to becoming a living playground for 30 children, a dragon called Dragon is growing in all sorts of unexpected ways these days. Never mind. With his signature wit and inimitable style, and the expedient of occasionally throwing his beautiful black Princess, Dragon Rider and best friend straight at his troubles, this Dragon is prepared to seize his war-torn world by the scruff of the neck and shake it into shape. It's not as if the world has a choice in the matter.

Keir thinks he knows about bad luck. His elven mother is dying of a wasting disease. His human father, severely injured in the war, struggles to walk. A brutal Winterfall clasps his mountainous kingdom in talons of ice. The people are starving. His family, his little sisters, depend on him to see them to Dragonmas Day. They need a miracle. But who believes in miracles anymore?

When strength fails, will love prevail? Betrayed. Hunted by the Whales for the power of her Song. Snatched away from all she holds dear, Zhialeiana must journey to the farthest shores of the World-Sea, where she will confront the ultimate power of the age, the Sea-Witch and her draconic minions. Forsaking all else to the farewell of life-currents, My soul’s boundaries expanded, My grief ne’er sweeter, Thus, we parted. >>>Many dark secrets swirl within the life-current of a girl with the power to touch souls. Legends will rise. The darkness will resist. Ten thousand leagues of ...

Who is the Beauty and who is the Beast? Cindrelline is a celebrated beauty who suffers from an appalling affliction, the price of her ancestor’s ill-fated dealings with a Necromancer. The cursed blood of a slain Dragon which runs in her veins has already claimed the lives of her parents and many relatives. Now, Aunt Gretelline has her claws on the family fortune and she has Cindrelline’s medical treatment … well in hand. Is Cindrelline the accursed Beast? Or the scheming aunt? Or is it the one who publicly humiliates her that night of the Royal Ball, who offers her life as payment to ...

Alodeé is a girl with a secret. She’s strong, smart and just a little too different. After a miraculous crash-landing on the mysterious exoplanet dubbed Resurrection Dawn, the Humanoid colonists quickly discovered a carnivorous ecosystem of gigantic proportions. Most of it rather fancied Humanoid meat. They barely survived. What they still do not know about their immense, physics-defying new home might very well kill them. Alodeé is about to find out why her parents fled to the farthest planet they knew, what her mother died without telling her, and why she’s being hunted by a ...

“One breathless afternoon in Addis Ababa, Mister Drainpipe waited in ambush.” Homeless, alone, haunted by the shadows of the past, Mister Drainpipe is a beggar cast adrift on the streets of Addis Ababa. He ekes out life inside a concrete drain, atop a pile of rubbish. His fragile world is about to implode. A man who has lost everything, can still lose his soul. By turns wrenching and savagely beautiful, this powerful, uplifting tale of life on African streets is set against the backdrop of recent events in Ethiopia. Mister Drainpipe’s struggles with homelessness, loss and mental ...

For Kevin Jenkins, nothing good can come out of being kidnapped out of his comfortable old slippers to save Feynard’s mythical Forest from the Blight. He’s bedridden, afraid of beetles, and he doesn’t believe in magic. But his abductors, a Unicorn and a Dryad, think differently. The Unicorn Zephyr believes he’s the champion the Forest has been waiting for. The Dryad Alliathiune thinks he just needs a jolly good slap. Everyone else thinks he’s a wet blanket, an impostor, or by complete coincidence, some sort of mighty High Wizard. Throw in a Dark Apprentice with a fondness for ...

In the third book of the Santaclaws series, A Fledgling for Summer's Rising, Keir and his family dive into the supposed safety of the mighty elven jungles. But even here, new dangers wait. Greedy eyes hunger for a dragoness of diamond born. Travelling into the sacred heart of the jungles, Keir seeks vital clues that will keep him and Storm alive.

The power to heal with a touch comes with a terrible price. When Arlak betrays his friend to the sorceress Jyla, she places a curse upon his life–the power to perform miracles. There is only one proviso. Arlak must live a perfectly unselfish life, or pay a forfeit. Each time he fails, her power will double. Each time he fails, he must run twice as long from the ravaging, burrowing Wurm. A life torn apart by a selfish choice. Godlike powers encased in a frail vessel. This man will be murderer, healer, betrayer and saviour. He will be El Shashi, a man on the run from an inescapable destiny....

Humanity makes its last stand. Having unleashed their ultimate weapon, the enemy armada drives the Humans and their Elven and Giant allies deep into the Amarinthian Bulwark. Surrounded and overmatched, the survivors take refuge in the Halls of the Dragon Kings, praying for a miracle. A true Christmas miracle. Can hope rise from the ashes, sprung from the extraordinary bond between a Diamond Dragoness and her half-Elf Rider? As Keir and Auroral Storm Diamond race against time to unravel the mystery of Santaclaws’ last moments, their friends and families fight for their lives, for their ...