Élina's adventures continue in her new role as the Keeper of the Little Folk, protecting fairies, gnomes, and other fantastical creatures. But in order to keep seeing them, she's going to need to whip up a new batch of fairy balm, and a crucial ingredient is missing: dragon tears! But not even her grandmother can tell her where to get them... Luckily, there's the library, and Élina finds an Arthurian legend that tells of a dragon turned to stone in the Brocéliande forest in Brittany. There just so happens to be a summer camp nearby, if only Élina's mother would allow her to go...

When a train crash destroys a shipment of mysterious dinosaur bones that might be the source of dragon myths, something forgotten whispers from the past... Judith Mills is a scientist who discovered the bones in the remote North, and determined to save whatever might be left. Creek Morgan is a Native Indian railroad mechanic troubled by nightmares he doesn't understand, while Eva Reed is a grieving young woman whose husband lies comatose in a hospital bed. George Pakuchek is a big-city lawyer working on a case he didn't want, and Neil Dayton is a young man running in terror. In the last moments of a winter night, their lives are changed forever when the freight train carrying the dinosaur bones crashes in an isolated forest. But Creek's elderly great-grandmother remembers disturbing fragments of a Native Indian legend going back to the ancient days of the tribe, and cryptic clues written on an abandoned city apartment wall echo warnings few understand. For a tiny group of ordinary people, courage and compassion will be their only weapons against revenge, corruption and greed. For the Dragon's Keeper is coming, and the line between myth and reality is about to be wiped away forever...

"[Mindy Mejia] is simply a beautiful writer…" —Twin Cities Pioneer Press"Mejia beautifully tackles the subjects of animal captivity, endangered animals, human-animal connections, and even evolution." —Global Animal"This is a thriller of the rarest form—one that touches both the mind and the heart. A wonderful read." —Mary Logue, author of the Claire Watkins mysteries"…impressive…ambitious…Mindy Mejia is a talent to watch." —Sheila O'Connor, author of Where No Gods Came and Sparrow Road A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her… Meg Yancy knows she may be overly attached to Jata, the Komodo dragon that has been in her care since it arrived at the zoo from Indonesia. Jata brings the exotic to Meg’s Minnesotan life: an ancient, predatory history and stories of escaping to freedom. A species that became endangered soon after being discovered, Komodos have a legacy of independence, something that Meg understands all too well. Meg has always been better able to relate to reptiles than to people, from her estranged father to her live-in boyfriend to the veterinarian who is more concerned with his career than with the animals’ lives. Then one day, Meg makes an amazing discovery. Jata has produced viable eggs—without ever having had a mate. Faced with this rare phenomenon, Meg must now defend Jata’s hatchlings from the scientific, religious, and media forces that converge on the zoo to claim the miracle as their own. Finally forced to deal with the very people she has avoided for so long, Meg discovers that opening herself up comes with its own complications. And as she fights to save the animal she loves from the consequences of its own miracle, she must learn to accept that in nature, as in life, not everything can be controlled. Mindy Mejia’s gripping debut novel highlights the perils of captivity and the astonishing ways in which animals evolve.

Framed for a crime he didn't commit, 18 year old Ash Brandon finds himself being whisked away to what he thought was jail. Until he wakes up the next morning feeling really strange. But what's more strange are the people he meets. When Ash discovers he is going through a frightening new metamorphosis, he has no choice but to trust these people. Until he meets their beautiful young daughter, Eva, his whole outlook on life changes and she helps him accept who he was destined to become. For they are the Keepers, and he is a Dragon Heart. The first book in the Dragon Heart series

The realm of Andomhaim has been reunited, with a true High King ruling in Tarlion once more. But it is far too late. The host of the Frostborn marches to war, bringing terror and death in their wake, and a weakened Andomhaim is not strong enough to defeat them. Only the sword of the Dragon Knight has the power to drive back the Frostborn, and it is calling to Ridmark Arban. But the sword devours anyone bold enough to wield it…

You never stop worrying about your kids, even when they're adults. Kate Elliott's action-packed The Keeper's Six features a world-hopping, bad-ass, spell-slinging mother who sets out to rescue her kidnapped adult son from a dragon lord with everything to lose. It’s been a year since Esther set foot in the Beyond, the alien landscape stretching between worlds, crossing boundaries of space and time. She and her magical traveling party—her Hex—haven’t spoken since the Concilium banned them from the Beyond for a decade. But when she wakes in the middle of the night to her grown son’s cry for help, the members of her Hex are the only ones she can trust to help her bring him back from wherever he has been taken. Esther will have to risk everything to find him. Undercover and hidden from the Concilium, she and her Hex will be tested by false dragon lords, a darkness so dense it can suffocate, and the bones of an old crime come back to haunt her. There are terrors that dwell in the space between worlds. Also Available by Kate Elliott: The Crossroads Series 1. Spirit Gate 2. Shadow Gate 3. Traitors' Gate Unconquerable Sun Servant Mage Furious Heaven At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Innocence and terror meet in a fast-paced evocation of a time far in the future. Set among momentous happenings, Robert Chalmers catches a society on the brink of a new age. In an age far ahead in time, two young people from very different walks of life find themselves thrown together in a battle to save the world from darkness. The Lord of Darkness is stirring and the forces of light are awakened. The two are inextricably linked when they forge a pact to fight together for the good of all. As the young friends grow and mature a new role emerges for each, as they gather forces about themselves ahead of the storm. 'Every separate voice is perfectly judged, reverberating in the mind's ear and leaving a tense echo as the battle looms’ Pick up your copy, by Robert Chalmers and start reading now.

For years, the inhabitants of Prali, a small Italian mountain town near the French border, lived in peace. They believed that danger would never come to them. However, deep within a mountain cave, a one-of-a-kind dragon feasts on rats and mice living within the cave. While he grows, he discovers this is not enough. He craves the taste of cow, oxen, and humans. The last of his kind, the dragon launches a brutal attack on the people of Prali. After the terrorizing havoc of the dragon. Bernard, a young Franciscan monk; Mary, a misplaced English girl; and the arrogant knight Leonardo. Join forces to eliminate the dragon and bring peace to the people of Prali. Only the courage and strength of the three dragon hunters will save the world from destruction. As they travel through the mysterious forests, and deep caverns of the region. They discover the secrets of the hidden lair and an underworld that time has forgotten. They journey to the farthest reaches of the dragon's lair to face their ultimate destiny.

For any that think that life in a magical world is all joy and wonder, come find the truth for yourself. It is work. It is need. It can also be dangerous! This is the first book of the, The Valley series. This book will create the foundation for the characters that make up the future of Rightful Magic, as well as give you the purpose and value of those who hold rightful magic as a truth. You will also find those who are of the basis for Dark Magic, and their terrible goals. What are the races of a Magical Valley to do against a beast so driven by the unbelieving outer world, that it must destroy all those of the Valley, and Rightful Magic? They must find Michael, who is of that outside world and can see not just the difference of the worlds, but can also see the value of both. Michael must then fight the battle that the Valley folk cannot, for they do not understand how their world can be hated, or feared. He seeks to destroy the beast that cannot be named and while doing this, he saves the woman who becomes his wife and is as intent on the rightfulness of the Valley, as he is. Their children become not just a part of the Valley, but unknowingly, become the beginning of the power of the Rightful Magic. Cory, the first born, becomes the power that drives the true value of magic, to awareness. DeeDee, his younger sister, gives value to her brother and the Valley. Tom and Sandy, who become Corys wife and DeeDees husband, giving support to them as no others from the outer world could. Come find the truth of a magical Valley and a magical Plain, and all those who are a part of them. Come find what is to be the beginning of the future, for all the magical worlds.