Flare of Promise (Asylums for Magical Threats #3) (18 page)

She took a deep breath and pushed back the sense of panic. While she didn’t know how her assigned dragonman would treat her, there was one thing she had to look forward to—the men were rumored to be fit and muscled. For once in her life, Melanie would get to sleep with a strong, hot man. She only hoped he wouldn’t be a complete bastard.

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Tristan MacLeod knocked on the cottage door of Stonefire’s clan leader. When he heard a muffled, “Come in,” he twisted the knob and entered.

Bram Moore-Llewellyn, Stonefire’s clan leader and Tristan’s friend of nearly thirty years, sat behind the old, sturdy oak desk that had been used by leaders of the clan for over a hundred years. It was beat up with more than a few scratches from young dragon-shifters trying out their talons. Tristan thought it looked like shit, but dragons were big on tradition and Stonefire’s clan leader was no exception.

Bram motioned for Tristan to come in and sit in one of the wooden chairs in front of his desk. Shutting the door, Tristan complied.
 

While he had a feeling he knew what this meeting was about, he asked, “You wanted to see me?”

Bram put aside the papers he’d been reading and looked up at him. “It’s time, Tristan.”

Fuck.
“Can’t one of the volunteer males have another turn? Putting me together with a human is a bad idea, Bram, and you know it.”

Bram leaned back in his chair and shook his head. “No. I can’t risk the gene pool getting too small. Neither you nor your sister has had any young, and since you’re the elder, you’re first in line. I hate to be a hardass, but if you refuse to pair with the latest human sacrifice, I’ll have to kick you out of the clan.”

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Sacrificed to the Dragon: Complete Edition
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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 #3)

Flare of Promise
(AMT #4)

Cascade Shifters

Convincing the Cougar
(CS #0.5)

Reclaiming the Wolf
(CS #1)

Cougar’s First Christmas
(CS #2)

Resisting the Cougar
(CS #3)

Lochguard Highland Dragons

The Dragon’s Dilemma
(LHD #1)

The Dragon Guardian
(LHD #2)

The Dragon’s Heart
/ Lorna MacKenzie (Summer 2016, LHD #3)

Stonefire Dragons

Sacrificed to the Dragon: Complete Edition
(SD #1)

Seducing the Dragon: Complete Edition
(SD #2)

Revealing the Dragons: A Novella
(SD #3)

Healed by the Dragon: Complete Edition
(SD #4)

Reawakening the Dragon: Complete Edition
(SD #5)

Loved by the Dragon: A Novella
(SD #6)

Surrendering to the Dragon
/ Nikki & Rafe’s story (May 2016, SD #7)

Author’s Note

My first three AMT books were my first ever books I published. If you’ve been with me from the beginning and waited the nearly two years between
Shadow of Temptation
and
Flare of Promise
, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. As much as I enjoy the challenge of the AMT books, they don’t earn me very much money. I write because I love it, but I also have to pay my bills. But now that I have enough books out in my dragon series to pay the bills, I sometimes have the opportunity to just write.
Flare of Promise
is one of those stories. :) I will eventually finish the AMT series, but it will take some time to get there. I hope you can be patient!

Besides my readers, I also have my cover artist, Clarisa Yeo of Yocla Designs, and my editor, Becky Johnson of Hot Tree Editing, to thank. I couldn’t imagine writing without either of those two fabulous ladies! I also have some awesome and invaluable beta readers: Donna H. Iliana G, and Alyson S.

The world of the Four Talents will really be gearing up in the next book. Between the curse, James Sinclair, and the Collector, poor Neena is going to be working overtime...

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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.

Flare of Promise

Copyright © 2016 Laura Hoak-Kagey

Mythical Lake Press, LLC

First Digital Edition

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Cover Art by Clarissa Yeo of
Yocla Designs

ISBN:
978-1942211365