Dragon Moon
Authors: Unknown
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PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF RUTH GLICK WRITING AS REBECCA YORK
“Rebecca York delivers page-turning suspense.”
—Nora Roberts
“[A] quick pace and dangerous overtones ensure that readers won’t be disappointed!”
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Romantic Times
“Action packed . . . and filled with sexual tension . . . A gripping thriller.”
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The Best Reviews
“A steamy paranormal. Brava.”
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Huntress Book Reviews
“A compulsive read.”
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Publishers Weekly
“York delivers an exciting and suspenseful romance with paranormal themes that she gets just right. This is a howling good read.”
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Booklist
“Mesmerizing action and passions that leap from the pages with the power of a wolf’s coiled spring.”
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BookPage
“Delightful . . . [with] two charming lead characters.”
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Midwest Book Review
“[Her] prose is smooth, literate, and fast-moving; her love scenes are tender yet erotic; and there’s always a happy ending.”
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The Washington Post Book World
“She writes a fast-paced, satisfying thriller.”—UPI
“Clever and a great read. I can’t wait to read the final book in this wonderful series.”
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ParaNormal Romance Reviews
Don’t miss these other werewolf romantic suspense novels from Rebecca York
KILLING MOON
A PI with a preternatural talent for tracking finds his prey: a beautiful genetic researcher who may be his only hope for a future . . .
EDGE OF THE MOON
A police detective and a woman who files a missing persons report become the pawns of an unholy serial killer in a game of deadly attraction . . .
WITCHING MOON
A werewolf and a sexy botanist investigate a swamp steeped in superstition, legend, and death . . .
CRIMSON MOON
A young werewolf bent on protecting the environment ends up protecting a lumber baron’s daughter—a woman who arouses his hunger like no other . . .
SHADOW OF THE MOON
A journalist investigates a sinister world of power and pleasure—alongside a woman who knows how to bring out the animal in him . . .
NEW MOON
Unable to resist his desire for a female werewolf, a landscape architect will have to travel through two dimensions to save her—and Earth—from the wrath of her enemy . . .
GHOST MOON
A freed slave from a parallel universe finds herself seduced by the spirit of a werewolf who was supposedly murdered by the ancestors of her dearest friends . . .
ETERNAL MOON
A PI is rescued by a lone werewolf who is her destiny, but something is stalking them—waiting for the right moment to strike . . .
Books by Rebecca York
KILLING MOON
EDGE OF THE MOON
WITCHING MOON
CRIMSON MOON
SHADOW OF THE MOON
NEW MOON
GHOST MOON
ETERNAL MOON
DRAGON MOON
BEYOND CONTROL
BEYOND FEARLESS
Anthologies
CRAVINGS
(with Laurell K. Hamilton, MaryJanice Davidson, Eileen Wilks)
ELEMENTAL MAGIC
(with Sharon Shinn, Carol Berg, and Jean Johnson)
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DRAGON MOON
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Berkley Sensation mass-market edition / October 2009
Copyright © 2009 by Ruth Glick.
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Skin Game
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CHAPTER ONE
HIS NAME WAS Vandar, and he was a creature from an ancient nightmare. A creature who had lived for centuries relying on his psychic powers, his cunning.
Now he lifted his massive head and roared for the pleasure of feeling his slaves cringe.
In his present incarnation, he was a huge, scaled being with glittering red eyes, a reptilian body, and wings shaped like those of a bat—only enormously larger. But he was just as likely to take human form.
Leaping into the air, he circled his lair, looking down with a feeling of satisfaction as he churned up the chemicals in his belly, then spewed out a blast of fire that singed the already blackened landscape.
His huge mouth stretched into a parody of a smile as he viewed the circle of destruction. It was a warning to any enemies who dared approach this blighted place. And a warning to the slaves who lived in the huge cave he had blasted out of a mountainside. If any tried to escape, he could turn them to ash as easily as he had charred the land.
Now he was widening his circle of influence, not just here but into a world parallel to this one. A world where the people would be helpless to fight him.
But he hadn’t lived for more than a thousand years by leaping unprepared into the unknown.
As he flew over his territory, he thought of the tasks that must be accomplished before the big invasion. He had already started his preparations for the assault by sending spies to the other universe. They were all men who had stayed for a few days and come back to give him a sense of the place. In the next phase, his agent would remain longer and provide a more detailed report.