THE BOY WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

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SUMMARY:

A teenage hooligan with a penchant for playing with fire goes in search of a dragon, before stumbling upon the London Underground’s deadly secret.

GENRE: Urban Fantasy (Dragons)

Note #1: Jess thought it was high time to write a dragon story, since she's been running dragonsinn.net for 10 years+.

Note #2: Jess is fiddling around with the expanded version of this story (as of mid-2011). She might bring in some of the elves from her cyberpunk Elven trilogy.

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REVIEW/CUSTOMER EMAIL:

". . .a good little book, hoping for more so I can see where the story goes. I'm a big fan of 'secret London' type books and dragons so combining the two is a definate box ticker for me."
– Andy Angel, e-mail from reader (from U.K.)

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EXCERPT:

1: Crystal Light

2 a.m., four of them, stealthing around in the London Underground.

Pax couldn't get the image out of his mind. No better way to spend an otherwise lackluster Saturday night.

"$20,000 for the dragon's head!" ran the televised message on MythoBusters, a few hours ago. "Get her before she gets you. She lies somewhere, deep in the heart of the underground…"

Pax Wu and Ashley Rae had been curled up on the couch during the episode. Prashanti Priya was making out with Chris Lotts somewhere on the floor, to one side of the small, hand-me-down TV set. Four housemates: two of them aimless job-hopping punks, while the other two were Liberal Arts undergraduates, frequently playing truant. The group of friends called their clique "FourSquared" ("4Sq." for short).

"She glows like a green crystal--get her before she gets you."

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