Building a relationship with dragons for the good of mankind.

Vance Maddox has been instructed, by his brother, Prince Hacon Maddox, to assassinate the King and Queen of Torvald and their baby daughter. When he reaches their chambers, he finds that they have already been murdered. However, their baby daughter is still alive and he knows that he is incapable of carrying out the order. Instead, he tells the servant looking after the child to run and not stop running, until this little girl is delivered to safety.

When his brother discovers that he has allowed the baby to escape, he immediately strips him of his titles.

Zanema, the matriarch dragon is given the task of raising Saffron and has lived in the dragon’s den since Vance Maddox saved her when she was a baby. Her companion and closest friend is Jaydra, a blue green sea dragon. After a chance meeting between Saffron and Bower of House Daris, a member of one the noble houses left is Torvald, they combine their energies to change the poisonous situation that has taken over Torvald. Unfortunately, it’s going to prove to be a very difficult task.

I loved the plot and the fact that Saffron was sent to live with dragons and thanks to Zanema, learnt how to use her magic powers. The close friendship she has with Jaydra was equally well portrayed and then her chance meeting with Bower, and their quest to heal Torvald and re-build the town’s connection with dragons made me realise just how much effort and imagination Ava Richardson has put into this book. I would happily give the plot 5/5 stars. However, whoever edited this book has failed miserably! The spelling errors that are littered across the pages were more than unfortunate. It appeared to me as if the book had been written using predictive text rather than spellcheck. Such a shame because this has cost this beautiful novel 2 stars!

Treebeard

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