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EXCERPT from Chapter
One:
... Dragons don’t
exist, Ariel.
Her parents’ words
whispered in her mind. This wasn’t
happening. It was a dream. She tried to
convince herself that when she opened her
eyes, she would be back in London, sitting
in a plush office, reading her brother’s
notes. Better yet, she would be at home
still believing all was well and normal.
Hot, moist air brushed across her cheek,
chasing away her last thread of hope.
Of all the gruesome deaths she could
imagine, Ariel didn’t want to die like this.
She fell forward, her hands clasped
together, face down on the floor, begging,
“Please. Dear Lord, please don’t kill me.”
With her eyes still tightly closed, she
heard the beast’s scraping movement, then
what sounded like the rustling of clothes
and the metallic scratch of a zipper.
Confusion swirled into the fear. She
raised her head and opened her eyes. Instead
of a beast, she saw a man.
In that
split second before the cloth covered his
muscular back, she swore a glittering,
iridescent dragon etched along one shoulder
blade stretched before settling into place.
Frozen in place, Ariel blinked as the
chamber was once again cloaked in darkness.
“You can come out.”
His deep,
raspy voice, an odd mixture of human and
something not quite human, promised danger –
and so much more.
“If I were going to
kill you, I’d have done so by now.”
REVIEWS:
DRAGON'S CURSE (4) by Denise Lynn: Desperate
to save her injured younger brother Carl
from the evil sorcerer holding him captive,
Ariel Johnson agrees to go undercover as a
landscape architect at Cameron Drake's
Appalachian resort, even though she's
already been terrified by a dragon at one of
the owner's other properties. Even while
frantic over her brother, she's drawn to the
irresistible Cam both while awake and in her
dreams. But when she finds out Cam is the
dragon and his beast finds its mate in
Ariel, she's forced to confront her own
inner powers. The constant danger and
burning attraction between Ariel and Cam add
excitement, and an original, action-packed
plot make for a must-read. ~ Alexandra Kay
for Romantic Times Reviews
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...Denise Lynn fascinates with
creativity. The premise behind her story
about wizards and dragons is original, and
the happenings are imaginative with
inventiveness. There are quite a few scenes
all through the book that will surprise the
reader with startling discoveries, and
several of the disclosures are much
unexpected. Before all is concluded, I was
caught off guard a number of times and the
reasons are all very skillfully entwined
into the plot. Ms. Lynn expertly makes her
paranormal stories noteworthy, and DRAGON'S
CURSE continuously kept my attention... ~
Amelia ~ Cataromance
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