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Call me Dragon. It’s the last thing you’ll ever do. Blitz the Devastator has never done a decent day’s devastating in his life. Fireless, artistic, and shunned by his Dragon Clan, he struggles to pillage even the meanest village. A future full of misery and failure beckons. This much is true until the day the burly brown Dragon successfully - imagine that - kidnaps the Princess Azania. As a black Princess of T’nagru, this spirited beauty is by definition the most unforgettable woman in the 17 realms.

As the Empress ascends her throne and Numistar Winterborn plots to gain unstoppable power, it falls to a hatchling Star Dragoness to navigate the clash between two almighty forces. Upon her tiny shoulders rests the future of all Dragonkind. Yet, does a sinister mastermind lurk behind the war convulsing the Island-World? A supremely twisted, devious foe? Islands will be toppled from their roots. Nations will be ravaged by sword and talon. Legends will rise. And the courage of a girl born to dance, born to the flame of Dragon life, must withstand the ultimate test.

Blitz is meant to be a rampaging Devastator Dragon. Unfortunately, lighting his own hearth fire isn't really a strength. When he accidentally kidnaps the black Princess Azania, the most beautiful woman in all the realms, riches, honor, and undeniable glory beckon.

Six years have passed since Hualiama and Grandion defied the Island-World's most sacred law. They burned the heavens together as rider and dragon. For his crime, Grandion the Tourmaline dragon suffered exile and imprisonment. The dragons forced Hualiama to forget her past. Now the suns must set upon the age of the ancient dragons. Amaryllion Fireborn, last of his kind, bequeaths Hualiama an astonishing legacy.

Stricken. Dying. Laid low by the accursed dragon haters, Hualiama must confront the greatest powers of the age as Dramagon's disciples encircle the ultimate prize - her. A girl born of fire, raised by dragons, and imbued with the terrible, corrupting power of ruzal. Now, portents fill the sky. Legendary armies fly to war. The prophesied comet crashes into the Island-World, bearing the spirit of a malevolent ancient dragoness, Numistar Winterborn.

The second hilarious, epic volume that follows the adventures of a dragon, oddly enough, called Dragon, and his heroine sidekick, the Black Princess Azania. (In case you wondered, her idea of a sidekick is to kick his sides. Obviously.) Dragon Rider and Dragon. Beauty and her beast. As unlikely a pair as ever set out to turn a world upon its head.

Abandoned at birth by her parents, Auli-Ambar is seen as a child blighted by a callous talon-stroke of fate. A worthless burden, she is blind, severely disfigured, and fit only for the most menial tasks. Then, a simple act of kindness changes her life. Flown to the Halls of the Dragons, the painfully shy girl becomes a cleaner of Dragon roosts and a helpless wanderer of the Dragon Library.

The traitor Ra'aba tried to silence Hualiama forever, but he reckoned without the strength of a dragonet's paw and the courage of a girl who refused to die. Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama's beloved kingdom of Fra'anior and restore the king to the Onyx Throne. Flicker, the valiant dragonet. Hualiama, a foundling, adopted into the royal family. The power of a friendship which paid the ultimate price.

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 ...

Chained to a rock and tossed off a cliff by her boyfriend, Aranya is executed for high treason against the Sylakian Empire. Falling a league into the deadly Cloudlands is not a fate she ever envisaged. But what if she did not die? What if she could spread her wings and fly?

This collection includes A Dragon for Christmas, A Hatchling for Springtide, and A Fledgling for Summer's Rising.

The battle is won, but the war has just begun. Evil stalks the Island-World as the Marshal of Herimor and his Dragon-slaying hordes put nation after nation to the sword. The haunting cry of the Nurguz summons all Dragonkind to their doom. None can resist. But Marshal Re'akka and his all-conquering Dragon Assassins are not the only trouble on the horizon. For there is a new Dragoness finding her wings, and she will stop at nothing to protect her loved ones. She is Pip the Pygmy Dragon.

Parenting is such a Dragon lark, until it isn’t. By his scales, who thought that furnishing his progeny with such an excess of personality was a good idea? And surely, surely, that’s not his fault. Now his precious, precocious teenager has gone missing. A dark magic rooted in the past stalks his family and Thundersong is on the warpath. This time, those Terrors have gone too far. Attack his children? Steal his joy? It is time for Dragon fires to rise! Queen Azania is all for adventure, just as soon as she’s assigned all the babysitting duties to her husband. Together, the intrepid duo...

Here be pirates! … Oh, and here be Dragons! GNARRR!!! And then there were less pirates. When a young soldier comes to beg help from Thundersong and Queen Azania to rescue his sister, snatched by pirates, the scent of adventure proves irresistible. Hoicking the lad up by his bootlaces, they promptly set off in pursuit of ye foul brigands. Never mind that the King will have a Dragon’s guts for whisking his very pregnant wife off across the Lumis Ocean. Minor detail. A rollicking adventure unfolds as the young lady in question proves unexpectedly elusive. Many dangers threaten out in the ...

Trapped in a car wreck, crushed by a train. In seconds, Zaranna's world is torn apart and she must start life anew, as a survivor. A double amputee. Yet why does this promising equestrienne remember a flash of sulphurous fire, and a crimson paw hurling her mother's car onto the train tracks? Why does a tide of beguiling butterflies flood her increasingly chaotic dreams? As Zaranna Inglewood adjusts to life minus legs, plus gorgeous Alex, the paramedic who cut her body from the wreckage, she learns the terror of being hunted.

The children are bored. A Dragon hatches a plan ... what could possibly go wrong? Life as not-so-normal may meander at times between bigger adventures, so Thundersong gets it into his mind to share the joy of art with a class of young Humans. The trouble is, these young minds are easily distracted and they dare to be bored! Obviously, a cunning and well-motivated Dragon must concoct a plan to rectify this outrage. Only, which Thundersong plan has ever been known to go, well, without the odd teensy mishap? A short, entertaining episode in the life of a Dragon called Thundersong and his ...

This Dragon has skills. He juggles infants upon his massive scaly knuckles. He can blow-dry a Queen's hair in three seconds flat. His cooking is the stuff of legend. Can Thundersong and Azania see the ailing Unicorns home? A caper is a-hoof. The dancing, prancing Unicorns need to return to their ancestral home. Danger? Did someone mention danger? This only involves swimming beneath a desert, dodging active volcanoes and journeying the length of the violently hostile, deadly Skartun region to their … swamp. Gnarr. Delightful. Just the place to fly with his best friend and Dragon Rider, ...

United by flame. Divided by all else. Flame-haired heiress Tytiana has it all. She enjoys wealth, power, privilege, and a growing reputation as a scientist and botanist serving the lucrative silk trade of Helyon Island. But amongst her peers, being a peg-legged redhead beauty bears a terrible price. She is a pariah. >>>Born Into the Lowest Rungs of Society, His Fate Will Take Him to Unimaginable Heights Jakani, the son of an immigrant Dirt Picker and a disabled mother, has nothing. Born into abject serfdom, the rebellious Easterner relies on his wits, dubious honour and infallible nose for ...

The Storm is coming! The hegemony of Sylakia has been broken and freedom won, but at a shattering cost. Laid low by the vile Shapeshifter pox and Thoralian’s wiles, can Aranya rise again? For war sweeps Herimor at the touch of the Marshal’s evil claws, and he will stop at nothing to possess the ultimate power. Now, the race is on to find the First Egg of the Ancient Dragons. Accompanied by her friends Zuziana and Ardan, and the magnificent Land Dragon Leandrial, the Star Dragoness must dive deep in her new quest. Cross the uncrossable Rift-Storm to Herimor. Stop Thoralian. Crush his ...

Only Beautiful Fury Will Quench All Grief Blighted. Scorned. Crushed. With the loss of the First Egg, Aranya’s campaign to liberate the Island-World from tyranny has reached its nadir. Long are the memories of the Ancient Dragons, and depthless their enmity. The millennia-spanning rivalry between Fra’anior the Onyx and Dramagon the Red, played out through the lives and deeds of those sworn to their service, threatens global annihilation. The pyres of destruction burn unceasing. As fate thunders toward its finale, can the boldest of paws yet stay the looming calamity?From the ashes, one ...