@page { margin: 0.79in } p.body-text-first-indent-western { text-indent: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: "Starling Book"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 102%; page-break-before: auto } p.body-text-first-indent-cjk { text-indent: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 102%; page-break-before: auto } p.body-text-first-indent-ctl { text-indent: 0.3in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 102%; page-break-before: auto } p { margin-bottom: 0.08in } a:link { so-language: zxx } The dragon flying over Tiadun bay is the only thing that Darna loves in the provinces, and she’s also the only person she knows of who can see it. There’s nothing else she likes about life at Tiadun keep. When she learns that she might be the daughter of the prince, she’s afraid she’ll be trapped there forever so she flees to the city of Anamat. In the city, there will be others who can see the dragons, or so the minstrels say. Along the way, she meets Myril, an older girl with frequent premonitions and an eerie sense of hearing. At the walls, they find Iola, so dragon-struck that she wants to be a priestess, and Thorat, her devoted champion. Despite these newfound friends, life in the city isn’t easy. Darna scavenges for scraps and just about gets by, but when she's offered a sack of gold beads for a small bit of thieving, she takes her chances... and ends up angering the city’s patron dragon.

The Defenders' order is dying, but that's no surprise. After all, they've been in hiding for over a hundred years, and apprentices are getting harder to find – hardly anyone can see the dragons any more. Eppie picked pockets on the streets of Anamat for years before one of the Defenders noticed her. She hid well, but one day she picked the wrong pocket, or was it the right one? She sets out to help try to save the dragon Tiada, but if her mentor and the others fall in the battle, who will defend the dragons against the next set of invaders? Keywords: secret society, mentor, dragon magic, swordmaster), dragon adventure,dragon girl, dragon romance, dragon warriors, dragon adventure fantasy, dragon thief

Darna is just a guildswoman, or so she’d like to think, but her alleged father was the prince of a backwater province. Her uncle assassinated him to claim the throne, and now he's coming after her. With assassins on her heels, Darna takes on a job in the remote province of Slaradun. The prince is irate to find that this limping woman has replaced the able-bodied man he hired, but according to the contract, he’s stuck with her for the season. Darna finds the prince arrogant and high-handed, but he’s also intelligent and well-read. As winter closes in on Slaradun keep, late night conversations turn from sea walls to more intimate territory, and the province’s lost dragon reappears. This book is the second in the Dragonsfall trilogy. It is recommended that you read The Defenders' Apprentice first. The story also refers back to some events which took place in the two prequel novels, Scrapplings and Priestess.

Myril doesn't need prophecy to see that her world is going to end – the city is sinking before her eyes. Foreign ships fill Anamat harbor, bringing foreign traders bent on pillaging the city’s treasures – with help from the governor – as the people of the city flee across the sea to hostile lands. Her guild needs her help to save the Chronicles of Anamat. Meanwhile, her old friend Darna needs her as a healer and midwife, Iola wants to go to her death in the dragons’ realm, and the Defenders are airing their secrets at just the wrong time. She begins to wonder how much the people she loves are to blame for the fall of Anamat. How will anyone, or anything, survive when the waters rise again?

My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light Slept with a mermaid one fine night. From this union there came three, A porpoise, a porgie and the other was me. Jack studies accountancy, lives with his maiden aunt in an upright Victorian household, and smells like a fish. The fishy smell drives girls away faster than they can be introduced. When Jack visits his father at the Eddystone lighthouse, he discovers that his mother has also come for a visit. He hasn’t met her since he was a baby, so that’s when he discovers that she's a mermaid. She sends him off on a quest to find his two lost brothers, a porpoise and a porgie fish. @page { margin: 0.79in } p { margin-bottom: 0.08in } a:link { so-language: zxx } Along the way, Jack battles carnival hucksters, falls in love, and meets a swarm of mermaids. KEYWORDS: historical fantasy, mermaids, merman, Victorian, folk song, Eddystone Light, novella