Bound by a Dragon (The Dragon Archives, #1)

by Linda K. Hopkins

for a few seconds on each turn. Fire spewed from its mouth and dissipated in the cool air before the flames reached the ground. All around her people shouted as they grabbed their children and ran for their homes. Doors slammed shut, and locks slid into place as buildings were barred from within. Keira shook her head in amusement – a mere door wouldn’t stop

guessed, who’d want to live so close to such a dangerous beast. Keira thought of the first time the dragon had flown over the village, some three months earlier.

had left behind a village frightened and scarred. It had lived in its mountain lair, so the story went, for many years without bothering a single soul. In fact, some even argued that the villagers were quite

attacked, they thought, perhaps the dragon would assist them in their defense. But that had all changed when the dragon tried to abduct a maiden from the village.

dragon would certainly have killed her if it hadn’t been for the young man who’d bravely – and si...

burnt down half the village and killed some of the villagers before finally breathing its last. The woman’s fate was unknown, not that it really mattered, the storytellers agreed. The important thing