Miranda’s Dragon and Its Sequel, Dragon in Chains
By Toni V. Sweeney, posted by Linda Nightingale
Once upon a time, I had this idea for a story about a babysitter who discovers her employer is an alien. It wasn’t to be one of those horror stories, however, but sometimes funny, often dramatic, always a love story.
It started off like this:
NANNY WANTED. MUST HAVE ABILITY TO FACE ADVENTURE, EXCITEMENT, DANGER.
In Miranda’s Dragon, when Miranda Wilson answers just such an advertisement, she doesn’t realize what she’s walking into. It could’ve been the plot of a Gothic novel, with a handsome widower, three orphaned children, and herself as the innocent governess.
But from that point on, the story differed.
There are odd undercurrents in the Andrus household, and Miranda notices those even before she meets her boss’ younger brother, a knock-out, many-married hunk by the name of Kitten. Before she can say, “That’s a pretty…
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