Crimson Tree Publishing presents: For the Heart of Dragons, the third installment in Julie Wetzel's Dragons of Eternity Series.
Disconnection is a very serious issue for dragons that can leave them stuck in one form or another, but it’s a condition that usually comes on slowly and rarely catches anyone by surprise. No one knows this better the Kara Rose, Eternity’s leading specialist in the treatment of this condition. So when the head of Eternity demands her presence for an emergency, she can’t imagine what he could want. She is, after all, only a therapist.
As a top mage with Eternity, Noah Dove has worked with dragons for most of his life, so he is used to their odd quirks and physical needs. When a dark beauty shows up to disrupt the king’s celebrations, he agrees to go with her to keep the peace. When Noah is unable to protect the woman from the group killing dragons, he’s left with her last request—to save her dragon. It would normally be an impossible task, but with a bit of magic and some help from the dragon, Noah forms the one thing that can transfer a dragon from one person to another—a Heart Stone.
Now the dragon is loose and out of control… and the only person who can help is Kara. With Noah’s consciousness locked away beyond her reach, she must somehow find a way to soothe the dragon and connect two halves that were never a whole. The task is daunting and will push her knowledge—and personal boundaries—to their limit and beyond.
Excerpt:
Kara
started off, and Mac fell into step next to her, holding the umbrella
between them. “So…” she shot the man a sidelong look, “what’s
the emergency?”
The
happy look on Mac’s face dropped, leaving a level of seriousness
that worried Kara. “I think it’s best if you talk to Daniel about
that.”
Concerned
by his words, Kara gave him a surprised look before letting the
conversation drop and turning her attention back to where they were
going. What could this emergency be?
She was a counselor that specialized in a very narrow field of mental
health. Give her a disconnected dragon, and she could work wonders.
Give her anything else, and she was almost as clueless as a monkey
doing math.
Kara
turned possible scenarios over in her mind as Mac led her through the
halls of the main office. Even though it had been a while since she’d
been there, she knew her way around pretty well. She paused for a
heartbeat when Mac passed up the turn leading to Daniel’s office
and headed down the hall to the holding cells. Her brow creased in
confusion when they came upon a group of men standing outside one of
the cells.
It
wasn’t uncommon to see groups of soldiers standing around waiting
on something, but these looked like they had been on the losing end
of some epic battle. They were rumpled and torn up. A few sported
bleeding bites, and one was holding a bag of ice to what looked to be
a burn. The group huddled together, peeking through a small window in
a door.
Mac
stopped a few paces back from them and held out his hand, ushering
Kara on.
Kara
glanced at him before walking past and up to the men. Each one
stepped back and let her closer to the small window. The looks on
their faces frightened her. She turned towards the glass, not knowing
if she wanted to see what was inside. Gathering her courage, she
stepped up and looked through the window.
The
room beyond was fairly small. Nothing really remarkable about it.
Just a simple holding cell with a concrete bed on one side and a
metal toilet on the other. What was remarkable was the condition it
was in. The metal toilet had been ripped from the floor, and water
sprayed out over the torn-up shreds of what was left of the pad that
had been on the bench. There were long claw marks down the walls.
They hadn’t really damaged the brick walls, but the paint job was
toasted. And speaking of toasted, there were huge soot stains on the
walls where something had tried to set them on fire. Right in the
middle of the whole mess was the culprit. A small, black dragon, no
larger than a dog. It stared at the door as if it were daring someone
to open it. As Kara met its eyes, a trickle of smoke rolled out of
the beast’s nose, and it growled. The thing launched itself at the
window.
Kara
jumped back as the creature slammed into the heavy glass. Hands of
the men around her caught her before she could hit the ground again.
As she regained her balance, she listened to the dragon terrorize the
cell. Never in her time as a counselor had she seen a dragon lose it
like that. A sinking feeling settled into the pit of her stomach as
she stared at the door to the cell. Is this
the reason Daniel called?
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