Black Dragon recounts the experience of a single Marine rifle company—2-F-23, or “Fox” Company—and its drive through the central Pacific in World War II. Author Steven D. McCloud, through painstaking research of battlefield reports and extensive interviews with surviving members of Fox Company, has reanimated the grueling, day-by-day slog through the Pacific theater through the eyes of the US Marines who endured it. This is the story of American teenagers who left home, many for the first time, trained together, and formed a team that held strong until, at last, those who survived tried to leave it all behind as they dispersed, returned home, and sought to build their lives. Decades later, Fox Company re-formed through correspondence and reunions and also welcomed McCloud into their midst by telling him their stories. McCloud took notes, chased down company reports and other documents to fill in the gaps, and carefully reconstructed their journey. As one member of Fox Company recalled after returning to Iwo Jima half a century later, “I think the pilgrimage to Iwo has helped me conquer my black dragons—those bloody and stinking nightmares that made nightly uninvited visits for fifty-six years. My dreams were in color, predominantly bloody red. Those remaining are in black and white and shades of gray, not so violent and stinking. These I can live with.” Readers who reveled in Stephen Ambrose’s masterful oral history of E Company in the European theater will find similar heroism and heartbreak in the pages of Black Dragon.

When the millennia-old sorceress Hagala claws her way back to the world that cast her out, she vows that this time she won't return alone. She unleashes monstrous dragons and seeks to summon an abominable deity. For this, she requires the Key. Consumed by the bitterness of unrequited love and centuries of exile, she feels utterly hollow. Thus, she vows to wreak vengeance upon the world and the treacherous souls who turned their backs on her. Upon learning of Hagala's return and her formidable power, a conclave of powerful figures realizes they must unite to thwart her apocalyptic designs. They must seize the Key before she does. Yet, the gods weave their own sinister plots, placing the fate of the world in the hands of unsuspecting mortals enmeshed in this colossal struggle. Four orphans, bound by a deep and grim kinship, return to their childhood home, unaware of the dark confrontation that awaits them. There, their destinies begin to unravel through alliances and enmities, potent sorcery, ancient dragons, and forbidden loves. They are forced to make harrowing choices between love and dominion. Can victory in a knightly tournament stave off a cataclysmic destruction of the kingdom? Or is an even greater sacrifice demanded?

Incorporating the results of recent research, this is a new edition of a book that received the American Musicological Society’s Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best musicological book in English published in 1982-83.

Deploys martial arts as a lens to analyze performance, power, and identity within the evolving fusion of Black and Asian American cultures in history and media.

She’s in for the ride of her life. Maria My parents’ love of dragon hunting got them killed and I want no part of it. When I’m confronted with a chance to find my father’s killer, I’m not sure what to do. I certainly don’t expect to stumble upon Lucas; sexy, frustrating and dangerous. I’m not supposed to fall for a dragon shifter. But Lucas might just be the exception. Lucas I’m a dragon shifter. I love my club and I love my bike, and that’s all there is too it. So when Maria walks into my life, I don’t have time to deal with her problems. But damn, she’s sexy, and even though she’s a dragon-hunter, I find myself drawn to her. But humans are bad news and I know better than that. So why do I find myself falling deeper? Standalone Romance Short Story With No Cliffhanger! --- SEARCH TERMS: Dragon Romance, Dragon shifter romance, dragon romance, paranormal dragon shifter romance, alpha dragon romance, motorcycle club romance, alpha male biker romance, shifter biker romance, dragon biker romance, alpha male romance, bad boy romance, paranormal shifter romance, Alpha male romance, Shifter romance, Shapeshifter romance, paranormal romance, insta love romance, new adult romance, quick reads, paranormal romance with sex, short reads, novels, novella, fictions, ebooks, dominant possessive, second chance romance, full length novel, steamy romance, hot reads, urban fantasy

The Sergeant at Arms heads the MC's accountability system, administers the bylaws, ensures the fairness of trials, fines and sanctions, establishes safe environments for the full patched brothers, provides physical security for the President and is the War Chief of the MC!

Scorching new romance from the author of Dragon Heat. When Saba Watanabe is attacked by white dragons in human form on the streets of San Francisco, the only man she can turn to for help is the dangerously seductive Malcolm, a black dragon who once made Saba his love slave. But it's Saba who must use her rising powers to save Malcolm-and all of his kind.