2 stars

Synopsis: Creighton is a private investigator who was once a police officer. Several years ago, he witnessed the aftermath of a dragon attack and thought that he dealt with the dragon. Then he finds out that the dragon is back, and that someone's missing daughter may never be coming back, as the dragon is ruthless.
Creighton heads out to the restaurant where the missing girl worked and sees dragons there. He goes home with one of them to try and get an inside track on the dragon world. Then he foils an assassination attempt and is taken to the inner world so that he can investigate and bring the missing girl home. But something is amiss in the dragon world, and Creighton has stepped in to the middle of something much bigger.

What I liked: the premise. The beginning of the story was well set up.

What I didn't like: once Creighton entered the world of the dragons, everything got confusing. Who really killed the girls? What was actually going on with the dragons? How did Creighton get everything done and survive?

Creighton accepts a missing persons case, not because he thinks he can find the girl, but because he desperately wants to find the man that allegedly kidnapped her. It's the same man that traumatized Creighton all those years ago and he wants revenge, except that revenge just might lead to Creighton's death instead.

I spent a lot of time scratching my head with absolutely no idea what was going on in this story. I think there was a plot, although the missing person's case vanished quickly and the revenge idea never quite panned out. There definitely wasn't a romance despite this story being released by an exclusively romance publisher. There was something about dragons and eggs and how all the dragons had to die and start over, but by that point I was so confused that even had that plot idea been fully explained I don't think I could have understood it anyway.

I do admit this story had potential. The idea of a separate world for the dragons filled with lava and strange castles was intriguing and the way Creighton is pulled into that world kept my interest. Unfortunately, without anything else providing depth, description, or plot, that potential was never even partially realized.

Ok

Interesting premise but not well executed. Too rushed.

I voluntarily read an advanced copy.