Playing With Fire
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Playing with Fire Boxset
Adrienne Woods
Carlyle Labuschagne
Kristin Ping
Toni Cox
Carissa Andrews
Majanka Verstraete
Kathrin Hutson
Ashley Nicole Bye
Kat Stiles
Kat Parrish
Karen M. Bryson
Monique Singleton
Playing with Fire Boxset
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First Fire Quill publishing edition October 2019
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Contents
By Adrienne Woods
The Forgotten Queen
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part II
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
About Adrienne Woods
By Carlyle Labuschagne
To Curse a Kingdom
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Part II
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
About Carlyle Labuschagne
Kristin Ping
Forever: A Forbidden Love Story
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
About Kristin Ping
Toni Cox
Wolf Of Ashford Manor
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
About Toni Cox
By Majanka Verstraete
Wicked Blood
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
About Majanka Verstraete
By Carissa Andrews
Love is A Merciless God
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
About Carissa Andrews
Ashley Nicole Bye
Fated Three: Fated Academy
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
About Ashley Nicole Bye
By Kathrin Hutson
The Summoner Thief
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
About Kathrin Hutson
by Kat Stiles
A Fated Exception
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Epilogue
About Kat Stiles
By Kat Parrish
The Poisoned Cup
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Epilogue
About the Author
By Karen M. Bryson
Raven Circle
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
About the Author
By Monique Singleton
Assassin's Choice
Chapter
1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
About Monique Singleton
The Forgotten Queen
By Adrienne Woods
Part of the Dragonian Series Spinn Off Series.
The story of Louie Malone and the love he shared with Guinevere, a Swallow Annex dragon.
Part I
Chapter 1
GUINEVERE
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“Gwen, make haste now darling!” mother called from the dining room as Annabeth was still tying the laces of my corset.
I hated these damn tea parties that mother loved to attend.
Although I loved my mother dearly, she was going to regret it one day.
Hiding our true nature wasn’t easy. If King Alexander or his queen discovered what we were hiding underneath our human forms, he will send us to the gallows, or worse, to his dungeons to be tortured.
“Deep breaths now, milady.” Anabeth pulled even tighter on the corset. It felt as if one of my ribs was going to break.
But she finally fasten the laces.
“Guinevere, Elizabeth, Horsted.” Mother barged into the room. She looked at me from head to toe. “You are not even nearly ready. I’m going to be late for the queen’s high tea young lady.”
“Sorry Momma, I can hardly breathe in this damn thing.”
“Your language. Ladies do not talk like that.”
I rolled my eyes as she wasn’t looking.
I was far from a lady. I was a dragon. A roaring, dragon. If I could breathe fire, I would, but no. I could only heal.
Being a dragon wasn’t a good thing. And what mamma and pappa were doing was seriously playing on death’s front porch. If the royals discovered what we were, I couldn't even think about it. I didn’t want to and yet, when it was time for one of the queen’s functions, that was all I could think about.
Anabeth helped me with my dress, tying up the laces so fast then it fell softly over my shoulders.
She used dragon magic to tie up my hair when mother wasn’t looking and I slipped into my satin shoes a few moments later.
I hated these layers and layers of clothes and just wanted to feel the sun on my scales, the wind beneath my wings.
Mother always said my kind loved the skies, the speed, and if I wasn’t careful, it would be the death of me too.
Hunters were always around.
Charles, the crown prince, had tried to shoot me down twice now.
Mother had no idea that it was me, she would kill me herself if that knowledge reached those frilly ears of hers.
I walked out of my room where father and mother was waiting for me.
Father was a respectable man among the humans but his ways were hard.
He had us keep our true forms hidden and what he did to the dragons that didn’t hide their form was appalling.
The way he helped the king chase them out of their hiding spots, to track them down...no wonder we had been banned from our colony a long time ago.
He was part of King Alexander’s royal council so I tried not to visit the castle much.
The crown prince was just as cruel as his father. Always hunting, always looking for dragons to please his father in their torturing games.
His brother, Louie. I did not know him that well as he was away at boarding school. But I was sure he was just as cruel as the rest of the Malones.
Today was one of those days, the royal high tea, that the queen arranged every fortnight, while father had to sit in with the king’s council.
They discussed hard truths and new ways to slaughter dragons. If the humans ever discovered that dragons also had human forms, I shuddered to think what the king and his men would do.
It was hard to tell a dragon from a human. Dragons that did hide their scales, they could never tell other dragons when they were in their human form.
Trust wasn’t a strong point with a lot of dragons. We learned the hard way that our scales would never be welcomed. We would never been seen as precious creatures created by the same one that created humans. I don’t know how father could sit through those endless meetings about trying to rid Paegeia of the dragons.
“GUINEVERE!” Mother’s voice screamed again and I slipped on my shoes and ran down as fast as I could to where she was waiting at the front door.
“Sorry, momma.” I said softly as I walked past her.
Her hand fan was working overtime, meaning that her patience was short.
Pappa’s one side of his lip curved softly. If mother caught him thinking that her scolding me was in anyway a laughing matter, he will sleep on the floor mat for the next two weeks.
Mother and father immediately discussed the afternoon events as soon as the horses galloped on the cobblestone.
I sighed and watched out the window, particularly looking up at the sky, wishing that I was still a part of the colony.
It had been such a long time ago when they banished us, but it felt like yesterday.
I was free in the colony, free to roam the skies and feel the wind beneath my wings.
Father always said that our kind would never be free. Not with the king’s curse that would be passed on to his son, Charles.
I shuddered every single time his name was mentioned.