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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

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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 see section history

Prologue
Chapters 1 through 19
Epilogue

Glossary edit see section history

  • Drakon: shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turn—changing from human to smoke to dragon
  • Herte: "The Heart" of the Drakon...a 98 carat diamond, stolen from the Drakon, somewhere in London
  • Draumr: "Dreaming Diamond"-stolen from the Drakon
  • Other: humans

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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.

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  1. Shana Abé (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 2005
ISBN: 0553804480
Page Count: 304

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Reading Level: Adults

Sexually explicit material.

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