One Good Dragon Deserves Another (Heartstrikers, #2)

by Rachel Aaron

Technically, their business was magical animal removal. This being the DFZ, though, the scope of the jobs that came in was much larger. In the month since he and Marci had gone into business together, they’d done everything from banishments to home warding to clearing out an entire warehouse overrun with sentient snails.

“Sorry,” he said brightly. “But I only beg on alternate Thursdays.”

Marci breathed deep. Here went nothing. “Because you let me know how badly you want Ghost. That means I’m holding the cards, and if you don’t want the human attached to the world’s first Mortal Spirit to end up as a notch on Vann Jeger’s spear, you’d better come up with a new offer.”

“Everything’s a game, Julius. It has to be. Life is whimsical, random, and cruel, but a game is something you can win.”

He grabbed Julius’s hands, clutching them together. “Help us, Juli-wan Kenobi, you’re our only hope.”

“Uh, because running a dragon clan is like trying to ride herd on hundreds of fire-breathing, sociopathic cats who all want to murder me?” Amelia said,