A dragon!
“Not merely a dragon,” Odhrán said, unable to contain his shock. “Anuki. The ancient race. Man-beast.”
“Our heavenly counterparts,” Ian said with wonder.
“I thought they were long extinct.”
Taren’s heart raced. Was it possible?
“The legends tell of death and rebirth,” Ian explained. “I heard them too, when I was a child. Anuki die with their loved ones and are reborn to live again.”
To love again, Taren said.
“Aye.”
The dragon child shuddered, causing the scales on his wings to ruffle like the feathers they called to mind. Ian moved to pull Taren away, but Taren shook his head. No. He won’t hurt me.
The boy approached and pressed his palm to the inside surface of the sphere. He gazed directly at Taren with eyes the color of the sky at sunset, a swirling mix of yellow, orange, and red. He was crying, each tear that coursed down his freckled cheeks like a tiny ruby lit from within, each disappearing into the swirling orange-and-red fog that filled the sphere.
Taren lifted his hand to the orb and touched it with shaking fingers. Bastian!
About the Author
SHIRA ANTHONY was a professional opera singer in her last incarnation, performing roles in such operas as Tosca, Pagliacci, and La Traviata, among others. She’s given up TV for evenings spent with her laptop, and she never goes anywhere without a pile of unread M/M romance on her Kindle.
Shira is married with two children and two insane dogs, and when she’s not writing, she is usually in a courtroom trying to make the world safer for children. When she’s not working, she can be found aboard a 35’ catamaran at the Carolina coast with her favorite sexy captain at the wheel.
Shira’s Blue Notes Series of classical music themed gay romances was named one of Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Word’s “Best Series of 2012,” and The Melody Thief was named one of the “Best Novels in a Series of 2012.” The Melody Thief also received an honorable mention, “One Perfect Score” at the 2012 Rainbow Awards.
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Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personae
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Twenty-Three
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
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