検索キーワード： ナレーター "Resa Nelson" すべてのカテゴリー

Astrid is reluctant to travel the winter route beyond the Northlands, even though it's her duty. She'd rather stay home in her village, surrounded by friends and neighbors. Ignoring the bonds of tradition, she decides to spend the cold winter months in the warmth of her blacksmithing shop. Why should she leave the comfort of her cottage to serve and protect foreigners who might raid and harm her native Northlands? But then a traveling merchant steals Starlight, the first dragonslayer's sword Astrid forged and her last link to her sweetheart DiStephan.

In the medieval Northlands, a dangerous family seeks power. They slaughter all who get in their way. Children’s rhymes hint at what’s to come, but no one recognizes the danger at hand. Astrid doesn’t know she holds the key to this power. She’s just a blacksmith who makes swords for dragonslayers. But Astrid has a dark secret.... A dragon once chewed her up and spit her out. She hides the old scars covering her body through shapeshifting. But the time for hiding is over.

Only 11-years-old, Pingzi Po worries about the secret she has shared with a dragon goddess: Despite being a demon queller, Pingzi doesn’t know how to recognize a demon when she sees one, much less quell one. Even worse, Pingzi is the only demon queller in the entire Far East, and there’s no one who can teach her what she needs to know. But faced with the urgency of solving a murder, Pingzi believes the killer must be a demon. She’s determined to find and expose him.

Pingzi Po is the only demon queller in the medieval Far East. So far, she has quelled exactly one demon: Benzel of the Wolf, a dragonslayer from the Northlands. Now, she must act as Benzel’s interpreter when he’s charged with slaying a dangerous yellow dragon seen only by an emperor. But the emperor reveals the Yellow Dragon isn’t an animal - it’s an unidentified citizen in his province, who has threatened to murder the emperor.