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Description edit
For centuries they’ve lived in secret among northern England’s green and misted hills. Creatures of extraordinary beauty, power, and sensuality, they possess the ability to shape-shift from human to dragon and back again. Now their secret–and their survival–is threatened by a temptation that... read more
Characters edit
- Zane: young street urchin rescued from the streets of London by Rue
- Clarissa Rue Hawthrone: Main character, loves jewels.
- Christoff Langford - "Kit": the alpha of the tribe of drakon, had been inexplicably drawn to Clarissa Rue Hawthorne as a child.
Quotes edit
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“The fairest face, and the blackest heart.”
Baroness von Zonnenburg -
“At least I know my own heart, black as it may be.”
Christoff Langford
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“If the other maidens of the shire were garish bright stars, then you were the midnight around them, silent and mysterious and all the more interesting for it.
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“Righteous intentions, noble deceit. Two sides of the same coin.
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“No, my sweet. For all its wild ways, I love the night.”
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First Sentence edit
Imagine a place so ripe and thick with the promise of magic that the very air breathes in plumes of pearl and gray and smoky blue; that the trees bow with the weight of their heavy branches, dipping low to the ground, dropping needles and leaves into beds of perfume.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
Chapters 1 through 19
Epilogue
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 5 in The Drakon. (standard series)
Followed by The Dream Thief.
This is book 1 of 8 in sc temp shana abe. (standard series)
Followed by The Dream Thief.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 2005
ISBN: 0553804480
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Bantam
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 2005
ISBN: 0553804480
Page Count: 304
Awards edit
- Romantic Times Historical Romance of the Year (Winner) (2005: Historical Romance)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
Subjects edit
- Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( A ) › Abe, Shana
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Dark
- Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
- Books › Romance › Historical
- Books › Romance › Gothic
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