Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part One
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No. He wasn’t that type of male. He wouldn’t break his contract or force someone against her will. He needed to leave.
Without a word, he rushed down the steps of the dais and pushed past his clan members until he reached the cool night air. As he struggled to keep his human side in control, he headed for the landing and take-off area. Apart from fucking Melanie, the only thing that would calm his dragon would be a long flight followed by a tough hunt.
He stripped his clothes and imagined wings sprouting from his back; as his body grew large, his hands turned into claws and talons, and his skin turned into a tough, black hide. When he was finally a fifteen-foot tall dragon, he spread his wings, used his powerful hind legs to jump, and beat his wings to take him up into the air.
Once he was high above the Stonefire community, he let his dragon mostly take over. He let out a long roar of frustration. The dragon-half of Tristan wanted Melanie. The other males would take her. He needed her. They should turn back and claim her.
Tristan forced his wings to keep beating and dangled the promise of a good hunt. His dragon finally conceded, and headed for their favorite hunting spot in northern England.
As the tension started to ease from his body, the human-half of Tristan started to realize he was fucked. His dragon’s possessiveness wasn’t normal. The only time a dragon would get so out of control was when they’d tasted their potential mate.
And Tristan’s dragon-half wanted a human named Melanie Hall.
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Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part Two will be available August 4, 2014.
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Convincing the Cougar
(Cascade Shifters #0.5)
Kian Murray is a cougar-shifter clan leader with a problem—he has a limp. Despite earning the injury protecting a group of cubs, he feels helpless. His clan and mate deserves someone hearty and whole, and he's nothing more than a liability. The best thing he can do is give up his clan and his mate and find a way to start over.
Trinity Perez-Murray refuses to watch her mate give up his clan because of a small limp. After four months of trying and failing to bring him back from the edge, she only has one card left to play—she's going to seduce her mate. But just as her charms start to pay off, she and Kian are attacked by a group of unusual shifters.
Now it's up to Kian to help fight off the intruders. But in the heat of the moment, will his alpha instincts return and release the warrior inside?
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Available now on all major online retailers.
Blaze of Secrets
(Asylums for Magical Threats #1)
Kiarra Melini overhears the dangerous secrets of her blood and decides that if Feiru elemental magic is to survive, she needs to die. However, before she can finish the deed, a strange yet determined man shows up in her cell, throws her over his shoulder, and carries her right out of the prison for elemental magic users.
Jaxton Ward is ordered by his superiors to train the stubborn elemental fire user he rescued. There's only one problem—she claims her magic is gone and he has no idea how to train a woman who spent the last fifteen years inside a prison cell. He's determined to keep his relationship professional, but as the danger amps up and they're forced to go on the run, he starts to fall for the newly confident woman who ignites his temper like no other.
Kiarra's final secret is the key to them staying alive, but can they outrun the prison enforcers long enough for her to embrace her unique magical talents and finally learn to love again?
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Books by Jessie Donovan
Asylums for Magical Threats
Blaze of Secrets (AMT #1)
Frozen Desires (AMT #2)
Shadow of Temptation (AMT #2.5)
Cascade Shifters
Convincing the Cougar (CS #0.5)
Reclaiming the Wolf (CS #1, September 2014)
Shifter’s First Christmas (CS #1.5, November 2014)
Stonefire Dragons
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part One
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part Two (early-August 2014)
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part Three (early September 2014)
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part Four (late September 2014)
About the Author
Jessie Donovan wrote her first story at age five, and after discovering The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey in junior high, she realized people actually wanted to read stories like those floating around inside her head. From there on out, she was determined to tap into her over-active imagination and write a book someday.
After living abroad for five years and earning degrees in Japanese, Anthropology, and Secondary Education, she buckled down and finally wrote her first full-length book. While that story will never see the light of day, it laid the world-building groundwork of what would become her debut paranormal romance, Blaze of Secrets.
Jessie loves to interact with readers. When not reading a book or traipsing around some foreign country on a shoestring, she can often be found on Facebook and Twitter. You can email her at: jessiedauthor@gmail.com.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the writer’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part One
Copyright © 2014 Laura Hoak-Kagey
First Digital Edition
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