Warrior-Priestess Rhavana of High Rock owes her freedom to Seira of Blackstone and Crown Prince Toryn of the centaurs, so when duty requires them to journey into the homeland of the dragons in order to discover how deep the soul-mage conspiracy runs, Rhavana joins them.
Trouble meets them at the border in the form of a big red dragon calling himself Kolaith.
He demands one of the warrior-priestesses stay behind and aid him in tracking and reclaiming his sisterโs soul from the soul-mages. Otherwise, heโll chase them all out of dragon territory before they can carry out their mission.
Rhavana suggests a centaur for their superb tracking skills, but Kolaith wonโt be swayed. He wants a warrior-priestess.
Sensing how stubborn the dragon is and knowing they donโt have time to do a lengthy political dance with a dragon, Rhavana volunteers to stay behind and help track the soul-mages even though she knows the dragon is omitting something.
It isnโt until the rest of the party moves deeper into dragon territory, leaving Rhavana with the dragon, that she discovers what else Kolaith didnโt say.
Itโs not just his sisterโs soul he wants to saveโitโs her clutch of soon-to-hatch eggs.
The big red dragon is determined to reclaim the eggs and raise them himself. But the dragonets will need a motherโs magic and love, and Kolaith has decided Rhavana will make a perfect mate for him and mother to the little ones.
Rhavana likes her newly restored freedom too much to simply capitulate and become a mate or a mother at the snap of some big scaly lizardโs fingers. That he shifts into one of the comeliest men sheโs ever seen wonโt influence her resolve at all.
Not at all.
And once theyโve hunted down and destroyed the soul-mages, rescued the clutch of eggs, and freed the soul of Kolaithโs sister, Rhavana plans to return to her own land.
But unbeknownst to Rhavana, Kolaith is in love, and a dragon in love is a very dangerous thing.
Huntress vs Huntsman Reading Order:
Master of the Hunt
Night Huntress
Dragon Archer
Soul Mage (Coming Soon)
Lisa Blackwood is the author of the bestselling Gargoyle and Sorceress urban fantasy series. Her work has also landed on the Wall Street Journal and the USA Today Bestseller lists as part of the Dominion Rising Anthology. When sheโs not reading and writing, she also enjoys gardening and spending time with her horse and her dogs.
At present, she grudgingly lives in a small town in Southern Ontario, though she would much rather live deep in a dark forest, surrounded by majestic old-growth trees. Since she cannot live her fantasy, she decided to write fantasy instead.