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After enduring grueling journeys and punishing challenges in the Far East, she is close to succeeding in her task of convincing the dragon gods of the Far East to make amends to the Northlander gods—but the final step now looks impossible.

Frayka knows she must defy a dragon god. The uncomfortable tug of a new scar reminds Frayka of her recent brush with death. She is still healing and not yet at her best. The dragon claims Frayka lives only because he helped her. Whether his claim is true or simply a ruse for keeping her under his control, she has no idea.

For the first time in her life, Frayka is alone. Separated from family and friends, she must pursue the task given to her by the Northlander gods of her home country: to find the dragon gods of the Far East and convince them to make amends for all the harm they’ve done.

Frayka must find and convince the dragon gods of the Far East to appease the gods of her Northland heritage. If she fails, her own Northlander gods will destroy all the mortals who once promised to worship them. The Far East is a mysterious place of legend to Northlanders like Frayka. Only an old map can show her how to get there. Once she arrives, all of Frayka's sensibilities put her in danger. And every dangerous turn delays her from finding the dragon gods whose help she so desperately needs. Although Frayka looks like a Far Easterner, she is a powerful Northlander warrior.

In an alternate history where a modern-day country worships the gods of ancient Egypt, Meres is horrified to see her husband nailed into a sarcophagus and thrown into the river during a festival day. It wasn’t supposed to happen. Everything is going terribly wrong. Why would the priests want to kill him? Running away from the White-Walled City and the temple she loves, Meres hides in the desert of The Black Land, determined to follow the river and find her husband’s body to rescue his soul before it’s destroyed forever.

Queen Angelique is caught in a quandary. She has ruled The Black Land since the death of her husband, the pharaoh. She defied tradition by refusing to name her son Penaware as the next pharaoh, even though everyone knows he was too young and immature to rule. Time is running out. Prince Penaware’s approaching birthday means he’ll come of age soon. The nation and the powerful priests who strongly influence it expect Angelique to proclaim Penaware the new pharaoh. But there’s another option. She could break tradition once more and claim the title of pharaoh for herself.

One destination. One hope. Many truths emerge. In the fourth and final book of the Dragonfly series, the deadly sorcerer Finehurst threatens to bring all people in the Great Turtle Lands to their knees as his slaves. His power is immense. Only Greeta knows the danger he poses. If he succeeds, Finehurst will conquer the world. A prophecy has been revealed. A Northlander woman must go to the Land of Sleeping Giants. But the prophecy doesn’t say how to find those giants.

Eleven-year-old Pingzi Po loves her freedom as a demon queller. In a few years, she could end up in an arranged marriage. But as long as she succeeds as a demon queller, Pingzi believes she can keep her freedom. When the emperor of the medieval Far East receives a report about soul stealing in a distant province, he sends Pingzi to that province to find the soul stealer. But when Pingzi confronts the man who sent the report, he claims to know nothing about it. As truths collide, Pingzi struggles to find a way to quell demons, save lives, and tell a very delicate truth to the emperor.

When Greeta and her Northlander friends find themselves in the Land of Swamp Dragons, they face hard decisions. In pursuit of the powerful sorcerer Finehurst, they don’t know where he is or how to find him. Greeta alone knows how dangerous Finehurst can be. She is also confused about the peaceful ways she learned in her Shining Star village and the insistence of her new Northlander friends that Greeta must embrace the warrior ways of her Northlander heritage.

When Greeta is abducted by strange Northlander men who set sail for the Land of Ice, she is shocked to find her family aboard the Northlanders’ ship. Even more surprising, her family not only knows the men who stole Greeta away, but also has promised to help them by forging weapons using the secret technique reserved for making dragonslayer swords. All Greeta wants is to go back to her simple, everyday life where she can live in peace and quiet.

Trusting and naïve, Greeta knows she's different. All she has to do is look at herself. She's tall and pale, but lives among people who are small and dark. Although she remembers nothing of her origin, Greeta knows she possesses the blood of Northlanders, fierce and mysterious warriors decimated years ago by gods.

Zuri dreams of being invited to the city island of VainGlory, where she can rise to the top of her field. Everyone knows that in VainGlory, fame is the name of the game. The most elite athletes, artists, and entertainers live in VainGlory. Designed for luxurious living, the state of the art promotes living in individual personal bubbles. Able to go anywhere virtually, the wealthy rarely leave home.

In the fourth and final book of the Dragonslayer series, Mandulane's army is poised to attack the Northlands in the name of a powerful god, but in truth Mandulane is using the act of spreading this new faith as a way to disguise his own personal greed and hunger for power.

Desperate for an explanation to how she survived a dragon bite, Astrid believes she has been protected by the black stone she keeps with her at all times, a stone that emerged from the sole of her foot a year ago. Determined to find out what the stone is and what kind of powers it possesses, Astrid begins a journey that leads her to alchemists and an army of men under the rule of the powerful warrior, Mandulane, the acting lord of the Krystr army. She must find a way to understand the stone and the powers she's convinced it must hold before it's too late.

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.

Pingzi Po is a member of the Imperial Family and the only demon queller in the Far East. That’s why she’s the only female in the entire country who has the power to live an independent life.

Young Drageen is now the leader of the Scalding clan and is devoted to his sister Astrid. But when the island is attacked by dragons, the inexperienced Drageen must follow the lead of his elders. His clan’s decisions make Drageen feel uneasy. Both Drageen and his alchemist ally are on the verge on discovering they’re being manipulated by someone in their midst. Someone they trust.