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Blurb for DRAGONS
WILL FALL:
From Award
of Excellence finalist and Angie Award winner, Susannah Scott, comes a new,
ancient world series full of exiled magicians, imperiled dragon-shifters, and
steamy romance.
An outcast magician with lousy control…
Kas is a half-light with
the “gift” of invisibility and healing, but her sometimes deadly magic makes
her distrusted by her own people. In an effort to prove her worth and save her
people from execution, she infiltrates an enemy castle on a spy mission, but is
kidnapped by a powerful intruder. When her only friend is taken hostage as
well, Kas has no choice but to embrace her volatile magic and turn to her
captor for help.
A dragon-shifter king with an island in revolt...
Cullen is the most
powerful dragon of his generation, but strength and cunning won’t stop the
mysterious scourge killing his kinsmen. After he steals Kas away to heal them,
he’s incensed to find her magic is uncontrollable. Despite her unpredictable
powers and non-existent fighting skills, he soon becomes convinced she holds
the key to saving the dying dragon race. He’s willing to do anything to gain
her cooperation. Even if it means breaking all taboos and seducing the crafty
little magician.
With a kingdom of
enemies after them both, Kas and Cullen must learn to trust each other before
their kingdoms are rendered extinct.
**Due to “open-door” sexual content and
dastardly-dude-comeuppance, this book is recommended for mature readers.
My Review:
Kasima McClellan is a half-light who watched her
family killed for not surrendering her to a murderous king who wished to wipe
out all things magical. Her gift is
one of invisibility, once she uses well as a spy in the human world. In an
attempt to discover the identity of the spy infiltrating the Half-Light camp,
she accidentally kills the king and is taken prisoner by a strange man who seems
to be able to see her while she is invisible.
She soon discovers, he’s much more than he seems and it was his sense of sight
that gave her away to gorgeous and dangerous, Cullen Armati but instead, it was
his sense of smell because he’s a
dragon.
Cullen wants desperately to find someone to cure
his dying dragons. Having already lost too many to this strange sickness, his
last hope is a Half-Light healer and without knowing it, he’s caught in the
human king’s chambers. She does her best to distract him, trick him, and escape
him but when he learns the truth of who she is, he’s quick to transform into
his black dragon and steal her away to the island of dragons—Islador. It’s
there that Kas learns much about the world in which she’d been living and about
those she called friends, and enemies. She also discovers new friends, and
love.
DRAGONS WILL FALL by Susannah Scott is an
amazing adventure and exploration into a fantasy world filled with half
human/magicians, half dragon/magicians, rogue dragons, dangerous and
manipulative magicians, and humans who are afraid of all of them while trying
to survive and figure out who to trust and not to trust. Kas is unable to trust
anyone except her closest friends, and she soon discovers that’s not always
possible either. She’s not even sure about trusting herself. Her
self-confidence is such that it inhibits her abilities and it isn’t until the
dragons build upon that confidence that she discovers her true talents. While
on Islador, Kas faces unwarranted hatred, attempts on her life, and danger at
every turn but she also learns to trust, in herself, in Cullen, and in new
friends. Life might not be easy for a Half-Light but with good friends and love
as her support, anything is possible, even falling in love with a dragon.
I highly recommend DRAGONS WILL FALL, book one
in the Kingdom Come series by Susannah Scott to anyone who loves a fabulous and
different world, action and danger, and if you love dragons, you will thrill
in the way Susannah takes us into the dragons' world. I can’t wait for Muriel
and Hank’s story…yes, she gives a preview at the end of DRAGONS WILL FALL.
Trouble is brewing in WATERS WILL RAGE. XO
Excerpt:
Armati dragged her to
the library door, kicked the guard aside, and pulled her into the hallway. No
other guards seemed to be coming. If she let him drag her from the castle, she
would be lost. Her best chance at escape was now, when he dealt with the
humans. Kas turned herself to invisible and wrenched away, but his grip didn't
waver.
At the top of the stairs,
he paused and spoke directly into her ear. “Behave.”
Behave?
She fought in earnest,
kicking and hitting at him all the way down, but only managed to bang her heels
on the risers. Armati pulled her past the hearth room to the kitchen. Behind
them, a bell rang a single repeated clang, signaling that the castle was under
attack.
“Leave, now,” he said as
they entered the kitchen. The servants looked at him slack-jawed and fled out
the door.
Kas released her hold on
her cells, and the hum of transformation zipped along her nerves, allowing her
body to become wholly visible. “Let me go,” she said. “Or I'll start screaming
and bring the guards.”
His eyes swept from her
toes to her face. “You'll scream?” An amused muscle twitched near his mouth.
“I'm terrified.” He opened the cellar door and gave her a push downward.
She braced her arms wide
on the open door, resisting by holding the doorframe.
Armati brought his face
to her ear, and the scrape of his beard abraded the side of her chin. “Get in.
Now.” The words puffed along her neck, sending chills down her back.
She rammed her right leg
to his groin, but he caught her knee in a tight grip before she made contact.
He smiled the slow, taunting smile from the library, and slowly lifted her leg
past her waist. She jumped on her left foot to keep her balance.
Armati crowded her so
she had to back step down the cellar stairs. He closed the door behind them and
followed. Damp earth and stored onions filled her nostrils. Muted light from
the kitchen permeated the wooden floorboards above their heads.
“They'll find you.” She
composed her voice. “You'll never get away.”
He stalked toward her,
and she forced herself not to cower. His eyes dropped to her brown tunic,
pants, and boots. “Who are you?”
“I’m no one.”
“Not true,” he said with
a sardonic twist of his lips. “You've got a wicked right knee.” He walked
closer and she retreated until her back hit the cellar wall. “And magic, so
you're either a full Magician or a Half-Light.”
“I am no one,” she
repeated.
Without warning, he
reached forward and pulled open her shirt.
“Hey!” Buttons scattered
to the dirt.
Armati turned her so her
chemise pressed to the musty wall. He yanked her woolen shirt off her shoulders
and his hands lifted her under shirt from her back. His cursory inspection told
her that he wasn't after seduction.
“What are you doing?”
He released her and she
flipped around and tugged her clothes together. “You've no markings, and the
Magicians aren't prone to leave the mountain. You're a Half-Light.” He gazed at
her thoughtfully. “You know where the healer is.”
Kas shook her head. “No,
I don't.”
“I can hear your heart
beat and smell your emotions.” Armati leaned forward and inhaled deeply.
“You're lying.”
She pressed her lips
closed and crossed her arms over her ruined shirt. “I wouldn't piss on you if
you were on fire.”
Overhead, boots stomped
across the wood floor, sending dirt showering down. Armati stepped closer,
crowding her against the wall. The heat of his body leached through the narrow
space between them. “Is invisibility all you can do?”
She knew how to be
quiet.
Armati held his hands up
in mock surrender and stepped back a foot. “I need to talk to your leader.”
“What makes you think
I'm not our leader?”
He dragged his gaze from
her feet to her face, lingering briefly on her chest. A blush heated her cheeks
and she pulled her arms tighter around her torso. “You can't lead people
without good boots. Never know when you're going to need to stick one up an
ass.”
About the
Author:
Mrs. Scott is an Award of Excellence finalist
and Angie Award winner for her dragon-filled romance stories. She lives with
her family in Southern Missouri and loves connecting with readers through
social media.
You’re also welcome to join her Must Love
Dragons Street Team
Buy Links:
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& Noble | Kobo | iBooks
Also
available: Scribd, Oyster, Tolino, and Page Foundry
Kingdom
Come Series Info:
Book 1: DRAGONS
WILL FALL, (Kas and Cullen) September 2015
Book 2: WATERS
WILL RAGE, (Muriel and Hank), early 2016
Book 3: KINGDOM
COME, (Felix and Lettie), late 2016
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