Description
Dragonfriend
Marc Secchia
Release Date:
04/11/15
420 pages
Summary from
Goodreads:
Stabbed.
Burned by a dragon. Abandoned for the windrocs to pick over. The traitor Ra’aba
tried to silence Hualiama forever. But he reckoned without the strength of a
dragonet’s paw, and the courage of a girl who refused to die.
Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama’s beloved kingdom of Fra’anior and restore the King to the Onyx Throne. Flicker, the valiant dragonet. Hualiama, a foundling, adopted into the royal family. The power of a friendship which paid the ultimate price.
This is the tale of Hualiama Dragonfriend, and a love which became legend.
*Series Note*
Dragonfriend is a stand-alone YA fantasy novel which is set in the same world as the bestselling dragon adventure series Shapeshifter Dragons and Shapeshifter Dragon Legends. It can be read in any order alongside Aranya, Shadow Dragon and The Pygmy Dragon.
Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama’s beloved kingdom of Fra’anior and restore the King to the Onyx Throne. Flicker, the valiant dragonet. Hualiama, a foundling, adopted into the royal family. The power of a friendship which paid the ultimate price.
This is the tale of Hualiama Dragonfriend, and a love which became legend.
*Series Note*
Dragonfriend is a stand-alone YA fantasy novel which is set in the same world as the bestselling dragon adventure series Shapeshifter Dragons and Shapeshifter Dragon Legends. It can be read in any order alongside Aranya, Shadow Dragon and The Pygmy Dragon.
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About the Author
Marc
is the bestselling author of 12 fantasy novels. Aranya and The
Pygmy Dragon are full of dragons, battles and romance, and are set in
a unique island-world above the toxic cloudlands. He's also the author of a
bestselling African historical fantasy series set in ancient Ethiopia.
Marc was born Cape Town but now lives and works in Ethiopia with his wife and 4 children, 2 dogs, and a variable number of marabou storks that roost on the acacia trees out back. On a good night there are also hyenas prowling along the back fence.
When he’s not writing about Africa or dreaming about dragons flying across the moon, Marc can be found travelling to remote locations. He thinks there’s nothing better than standing on a mountaintop wondering what lies over the next horizon.
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Excerpt
The Roc lifted her five feet and two inches
frame with ease. As he manhandled her toward the safety railing which lined the
gantry beneath the Dragonship’s hundred-and-fifty-foot hydrogen balloon, Lia
saw the unmistakable profile of Ha’athior Island’s double volcanic cone abaft
their starboard beam. Ahead and several miles below lay a tiny side-volcano,
nestled against its parent like a Dragon hatchling taking comfort against an
enormous mother’s flank. After that? Crimson-tinged Cloudlands lapped unbroken from
the Islands to the horizon’s skirts, a deathly carpet clothed in immeasurable,
brooding majesty.
Strange. She had always wanted to
experience Dragon flight.
The touch of cool metal against her back
provoked a sudden, final outpouring of strength. Reaching behind her, Hualiama
caught her long braid in her fingertips.
“Any birthday wishes, little Lia?” chuckled
Captain Ra’aba.
“Rot in–” she inhaled sharply, choking on
blood “–a Cloudlands hell.” Reaching up, Lia jabbed her three-inch long,
razor-sharp hairpin into his windpipe, several inches below his left jawbone.
He wheezed, “You …”
As Ra’aba recoiled, the flailing of his
arms tumbled her over the edge. Lia screamed endlessly as she fell through the
ruddy beams of a perfect Fra’aniorian suns-set.
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