Many eggs are laid by the lady dragon Arikka that crisp fall morning, but one egg is special. The newborn dragon seems weak, the proverbial runt of the litter, well, clutch in this case. Yet, he makes up for it with heart and hard work in his training: his hard gained flying, his fire attacks, not to mention his other more special abilities that he goes to the edge for. He will face many things as he grows: attackers, betrayers, loss and love. He will have many adventures, save friends and be saved as well. He will also make mistakes, as we all do, on the way to meet the thing that is also his name: Destiny!

“Jimmy Hatch is a personal hero of mine.” —Anderson Cooper “Irresistible. . . . A wounded SEAL’s shame becomes a salvation.” —J. Ford Huffman, Military Times James Hatch is a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler. On his fateful final mission in Afghanistan, his SEAL team was sent to recover Bowe Bergdahl—the soldier who deserted his post and fell into the hands of Al-Qaida and the Taliban. The mission went south, and Hatch was left with a shattered femur from an AK-47 round and the SEAL dog who fought alongside him was dead. As a result of his horrific leg wound, his twenty-four-year military career came to an end—and with it the only life he’d ever known. In Touching the Dragon, we witness his long road to recovery. Getting well physically required eighteen surgeries, twelve months of recovery, and learning to walk again. But getting well mentally would prove to be much tougher, as he fought through the depths of despair, alcoholism, and the pull to end his own life. What emerges is a different kind of hero’s journey, one in which Hatch shows the courage it takes to confess, confront, and overcome his own brokenness. Through the love of family, friends, and his military dogs, Hatch learned remarkable tools and found his purpose, and now he wants to share this wisdom with the rest of us because we all have wounds.

Firespark was never known to have much emotion or show his feelings. He was known for his strength and charm, which he eventually discovered wasn't what he needed most. What he needed most was a family. When he was just a hatchling his parents were killed by assassins, and his only sibling was taken to another continent as an egg. The assassins took him in and raised him. But after Firespark found out, he killed the master assassin and flew away. So he had to grow up pretty quick. Now, Firespark must carry out his part of The Heroes Plan to go aboard the human pirate ship, sail across the Cryptic Ocean, and to the Firestone Kingdom. There, they must somehow convince the king and queen to follow their ultimate plan to stop Queen Darkness. But the humans might not be as willing to let them freely sail, and neither would a tough, self-prideful, treasure stealing, deadly dragon. Join Firespark across Talvazah, fighting monsters from a Kraken, to a mountain-sized Lava Dragon! And discovering new secrets that could change everything, including a big secret that Firespark's been holding ever since the adventure began!

Once an elite warrior, Barid is now a village blacksmith. Despised and ridiculed by the villagers, Barid waits for Noor: a man whom he’d die for; a man who may already be dead. When Gaurang arrives and promises the villagers a miracle, Barid must decide whether to remain a blacksmith or put his past and Noor behind him. Set 170 years after Hotsuka’s Story, in a time where the Dragonfolk are at war with the Empire, this second novella in the Dragon Pearl series explores the training and life of the El’ Zamu, a group of warriors who call themselves the Undefeated.

The nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago offers a unique case for the study of the forces and ideologies of nationalism. This book reveals how this ethnically diverse nation (40% African origin, 40-45% East Indian origin, plus those of Syrian, Chinese, Portuguese, French and English descent), independent for less than forty years, has provided fertile ground for the creative tension between the imagination of the writer in his or her search for a habitable text of identity and the official discourse on nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago. This discourse has in turn been embedded in a struggle that propels the nation's story. Following on from this background, the study examines the changes and influences on the sense of nationalism and peoplehood caused by migration and the ethnicization of migrant communities in the metropoles.

Heart of a tiger, strength of a dragon, body of a ... schoolboy? A thrilling new action-adventure series with the magical power of the Chinese Zodiac. When Jack's grandpa leaves him a magical twelve-sided jade coin, Jack finds himself caught in an ancient battle between good and evil. For he is the new Tiger Warrior, and it's up to him to save the world! Luckily, Jack has the spirits of the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac to help him. Tiger can harness the power of fire, Dragon can control water, Monkey has lightening speed and the rest, well they're just happy to be out of the jade coin for a bit! But other ancient spirits want the power of the Chinese Zodiac for themselves... With a brilliant cast of troublesome animal zodiac creatures, deadly demons and spine-tingling spirits, this series is for fans of Adam Blade and Percy Jackson.

Sink your teeth into 125,000 words of amazing dragon shifter adventure!-------------------------- No one screws with my family. My sister and I are human orphans raised by the world's best assassin, taught to steal and kill our way through the dragonlands under her watchful eye. Grown men fear us, and no one knows we're coming until it's too late to run. Irena and I-we're good. The best. In a dog-eat-dragon kind of world, we have to be. But someone betrayed us. Someone we trusted with our lives. Irena is missing. My mentor is gone. And as for me... the man responsible for this mess thought he killed me. He kicked me into a pit, and he left me to die. But I don't give up that easy. In the darkness, facing death itself, I fused with dragons. I had no choice. This is ancient magic, and dangerous people want it. They want me, dead or alive, and they'll start a war if that's what it takes to control me. The magic I discovered-the magic these brutal people want-it's mine, plain and simple. No one can take it from me. And I'm coming back from the dead. For blood. For vengeance. For Irena. Reign of Dragons is a full-length novel with a badass heroine, a riveting storyline, and an alternative relationship dynamic. Get ready for a heart-pounding story filled with a dragon shifter romance unlike anything you've read before. Buckle in for heart-pounding action, breathtaking magic, deadly assassins, four drop-dead gorgeous leading men, lots of toned muscles, and most importantly-a young woman's journey of justice, self-discovery, and freedom. READ THE WHOLE SERIES The Dragon Dojo Brotherhood: a riveting and addictive dragon shifter fantasy romance series. Book 1: Reign of Dragons Book 2: Fate of Dragons (March 2019) Book 3: Blood of Dragons (April 2019) Book 4: Age of Dragons (April 2019) Publisher's Note: The Dragon Dojo Brotherhood is a reverse harem series with explicit scenes and is meant for mature readers who enjoy spellbinding stories with a few fan-your-face moments in their fantasy fiction.