Dragon Guardian (Drakins of Wyrmarach)
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DRAKINS of WYRMARACH
Vol 1
DRAGON GUARDIAN
ALSO BY EDEN GLENN
AMETHYST DESIRE COLLECTION:
RAYNIA’S MAGIC
BEVERLY’S SECRET
PHOENIX REBORN
SHIFTER’S LEGACY
EMMA’S NEW YEAR
THE GALLOPING GHOUL OF HOCKOMOCK SWAMP
DAR’KIND PROMISES
Copyright © 2014 Eden Glenn
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 13: 978-1456594527
ISBN-10: 1456594524
PRAISE FOR EDEN GLENN
THE AMETHYST DESIRE COLLECTION
RAYNIA’S MAGIC Vol 1
(M/F/M, M/M/F Menage’ Contemporary Erotic Romance)
BEVERLY’S SECRET Vol 2
(F/F Contemporary Erotic Romance)
PHOENIX REBORN Vol 3
(F/F – Paranormal Erotic Romance)
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-Smart Girls SciFi
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-Abigail Sharpe
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“Uh, wow. I need to go find an Amethyst. Very hot, erotic M/M/F fiction…”
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I like the flow and diction of this writer and when the book ended I found I was wanting more. Beverly's Secret is a lovely story and while it has a fair deal of eroticism it's also a touching tale, no pun intended.
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What a yummy and torturous story! …The author literally wrote about a paranormal I haven't read about before! …Add to it steamy scenes, kick butt fighting, and oh so sexy characters and you have this amazing story! Can't wait to see what comes next! Carrie of The Indy Book Fairy.
DAR’KIND PROMISES
(F/F Paranormal Erotic Romance)
Magic and more! This is a fun novella with two women, each strong in her own way. The description of the book is a good summary, so I'll just add that the mix of magic, humor, drama, adventure, and tenderness made this a satisfying read for me. -Smart Girl’s SciFi
DRAGON
GUARDIAN
EDEN GLENN
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DRAGON GUARDIAN
Cover Blurb:
Novel M/F/M Menage’ Erotic Paranormal Romance.
Wren, Cathwren Aldridge, is catapulted into a steamy relationship with twin brothers Ethan and Caleb Monroe quite by accident when she falls through her stairs. She discovers nothing is what is seems and she may be foreordained by their Goddess for more. She’s not chosen to be Queen of some small European country but a world in another dimension, a world of dragon shape shifters.
Evil stalks Wren, and it’s up to Caleb and Ethan to protect her while they figure out just what she is. Is she the one they’ve hoped for to unite them in their journey to the throne? Or will the strangeness of the truths they tell her drive her onto a path of self-discovery leaving them bound to a woman they can never have, The Dragon Guardian.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DRAKINS of WYRMARACH
ALSO BY EDEN GLENN
PRAISE FOR EDEN GLENN
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
DEDICATION
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
EPILOGUE
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DRAKINS OF WYRMARACH
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THE AMETHYST DESIRE COLLECTION
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A special thank you to all my friends at First Coast Romance Writers and the Ink Plots critique group. This book would never have come to publication without your mentoring and encourag
ement.
This book in its former incarnation was “Dragon Marks” and contested very well reaching the top three in the Unpublished Beacon and the Winter Rose Contest. Judith Ehrlich, judge gave me the best advice on making the book better and personally critiqued several chapters of the manuscript. I was both touched and challenged. Wren’s character received an overhaul and I have to believe she would approve of the change.
And lastly, to E, my editor and friend at Rebel Ink Press, where most of my titles have published. Thank you for the freedom and encouragement to take on this direct publication project. I look forward to our continued work together.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Amo Jaita – My Beloved
Amo Jaita Omer – My Beloved Brother
Arach- Shifters born human with the ability to transform to dragon. First shift comes upon them during puberty
Calbot – Large herbivore looks a lot like a cross between an elk and a rabbit
ConAnasia – Mercy killing or the noble death
Daevedar – Test of character, a trial, during mating period
Enforcer – Dragon shifters charged with keeping the dimension of dragon shifters secret from humans by hunting illegal aliens and their descendants who cross over from Wyrmarach
Gla’hera – After life place of peace and plenty
Hetcat – Feline predator in Wyrmarach
Jaita’me –Queen, beloved mate, woman in mating relationship
Jonkanu – Fast sleek boats. Annual race in the Aheron province
Limaneha – Male Sexual Servant.
Lumatia Sacrismo – Sacred Enlightenment, Revelation of the Goddess
Mane’tung – Title of the royal twins in performance of their duties as Enforcers
Moskfly – Beautiful like a butterfly but with a sting
Muhala – Great Muhala – curse, Muhala was the first Wyrm hatched
Nigelia – Revered One
Scrimple – Shell fish native to Wyrmarach a little bit like a crab and a lot like a shrimp
Sidhartha – Dragon Skin covering. Shifters are given a small piece of their dragon’s hide which assimilates into them on a cellular level
Tao’Taran – Sword arm of the Queen, her guard and protector
Wyrm – Dragon shifters hatched as dragon. First shift to human comes as a toddler
Quaynar Rou – Mating process consisting of steps: claiming, a blood exchange, impression, the Davedar challenge and receiving marks
Ve’negta – Battle for property
DEDICATION
Thank you to my critique partner, Charlee Allden. You heard my voice in the writing before I did and found ways to sift through it all to strengthen me. You helped save the Dragons when they were barely hatched.
A special shout out to V.B. I used your x-husband’s first name for the bad guy. I have an unsavory end planned for him, in the novel, of course. You’ve found your HEA with Spiderman and naturally living well is the best revenge.
Additionally, I wouldn’t have taken it to publication without the dedication and love of my partner Jill, my geek librarian extraordinaire. Lady Gillian, you are Bwave, Steadfast and Twue! She helped me with all the techno geek that I struggled to understand. As an avid Sci Fi reader she’s a great sounding board. I may have given Wren her wings but Jill gave her the strength to fly.
CHAPTER ONE
Caleb Monroe shook the antique doors of Salynne’s Crystals & Thyme, a new age curiosities and notions shop. The business hours proclaimed in bold black letters that the store should have opened half an hour ago. The sign made a metallic ping against the windowed double frame as Caleb rattled the knob again. The sharp sound echoed a counterpoint to the psychic vibration, which annoyed him since dawn. The heavy walnut doors wobbled but didn’t budge.
Caleb turned to his brother. “Ethan, any special reason we’re at a new age trinket shop.”
“You can get a head start on your Christmas shopping.” Ethan exuded a capable calm air Caleb sometimes found reassuring, but today it pressed all his ir-ri-tate-the-crap-outa-me buttons. He’d been growling at his identical twin since they’d awoken. Yet he knew Ethan wouldn't have dragged him down here on a whim.
Caleb turned on his heel and snorted. “Riigghtt, in October.” He stalked the real estate in front of the store, brushing past planters of green things. In Florida, there wasn’t enough cold to halt their growth. He reached out to touch the herbs, even the clean aroma floating up from the container gardens failed to ease his rising agitation.
He paused to scan the street. An uneasy tingle of premonition radiated up the short hairs of his neck. Something wasn’t right. Something really bad was close to happening, something in the realm of the mother-of-all-bad, like something cataclysmic bad.
Unfortunately, the queasy feeling that hijacked his hardwiring didn’t come with a translation guide. Caleb turned to make another pass. Restless energy pulsed through his muscles as he paced. He knew his rock steady brother felt the same, even if Ethan’s only response was to plant himself in the middle of the walkway, immovable as a damn mountain.
Cautious about what might be lurking, Caleb extended his psychic feelers and tapped into the current which had driven him since waking. Dark charged power crackled over him. An uneasy chill raced across his skin and shocked him with a burst of sensation. He jumped back from the resulting jolt that bit him.
“Yeah,” Ethan said, as the excess energy arched between them. “Now you know as much as I do. I’ve already shocked the piss out of myself a couple of times this morning.” Ethan folded his arms across his chest. “You woke me up at day break moaning in your sleep. I guessed your restlessness was more than needing to get laid.
“Oh yeah, cause your lack of sex has turned you into Mr. Cheerful.” Caleb couldn’t pass on the opening Ethan had left. There were plenty of opportunities for willing sexual partners, as women were drawn to their Drakin pheromones. Maybe they were bored with the whole sex for recreation nameless blur or maybe they were both leery of finding a woman who might come between them.
Ethan shrugged. “Anyway, the energy’s gotten stronger while we’ve been standing here. It just felt right to be here, before...”
Caleb paused in his prowl across the store-front. “Yeah, before.” Caleb tried to center himself to figure out how to circumvent this devastating, and as yet unknown happening before time unfolded the result in disaster.
“Clock’s ticking, Bro.” Ethan prodded Caleb to use his focus talent to find the metaphysical fibers of energy which guided them to the event they needed to stop.
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Late, late, late… The words pounded through Wren Aldridge’s brain as she spun around in the middle of her bedroom, awake but far from alert. She didn’t know what to do first, wake up should be high on the list. She captured her hair, using a scrunchy to trap the ringlets on top of her head. A creepy, weird, dream had woken her around four a.m. Grabbing the clock must have… shut-off-the-alarm. Damn, gotta go, late, late, late.
She’d pushed a self-imposed schedule since inheriting the shop. She expected herself to be as reliable as any good employee, responsible, and damn-it-all, at least on time. Not that she had to worry about a flood of customers. Snow birds hadn’t arrived yet. Her biggest concern was keeping her doors open until the relief of tourist season.
Clothes, clothes, somewhere she had clean clothes. Wren grabbed underwear and a bra from the rattan basket, clean laundry which once again had not made it into the heavy antique chest of drawers.
Damn, got to go. Out of habit, she touched her throat to be sure Gram’s necklace still hung there. Her cell phone on the night stand sang out a Celtic musical score.
Izzy! If Wren didn’t answer the call she wouldn’t get to talk to her friend until lunchtime. She balanced the phone between her ear and shoulder grabbing a pair of jeans from the laundry. Isabeau -- Izzy’s voice purred from the speaker. “So, how did the great break up with stinky Ron go?” Wren’s recent dating inter
est landed the unfortunate nickname after she shared her revulsion for Ron’s natural masculine smell.
“It was awful, he went on and on about how much he invested in our relationship. All him, like I was a freaking prize.”
“Sweetie, I’m sorry. I know that’s hard.” Izzy’s voice made you feel good all over. She explained her warm and unusual accent as a combination of native tribal mother and Scottish father.
Wren hopped, pulling the snug jeans up over her hips and fastening them. “No, really, I don’t care.” She waved a dismissive hand in the air, as if Izzy could see her. “I thought we had a casual dating relationship, you know, friends and fun. He expected more than I’m ready to give. I should have dumped him before now.”
Wren continued to talk as she pulled a green tank top over her head. The shirt cropped across her belly above a small gold and jade, navel piercing, a token of her rebellious youth.
“He lost it when I wouldn’t change my mind. Called me a frigid, tight-ass bitch.”
“Oh, no, he did-n’t!” Outrage colored her friend’s voice.
“Yes. After that, he got all whiny and followed me out of the restaurant … major scene time. I won’t go back to that place for quite a while. He went on and on, talking about how much he wanted to deepen our relationship and he was sorry for losing his temper.
“That was the end of your date? Then, you came home?”
“Oh, and get this. He told me I had a difficult temperament for a reasonable man to deal with. Putting the failure back on me again and acting as if screwing me would freaking fix everything that wasn’t working between us.”
“He didn’t hang around or anything?” There was a funny hitch in Isobeau’s voice.
“No, I came home, ate Rocky Road ice cream and had awful dreams all night.”