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The Two Dragons – A Novel

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The Two Dragons is the final novel in the Steel Dragon Trilogy. It takes place five years after the events in The Sorceress’s Apprentice, and eight years after the events in The Steel Dragon. Here is a blurb for this book.

WAR IN A WORLD OF MAGIC!

Since its founding almost nine years ago, Port Dechantagne and the Brech Birmisia Colony have become a thriving dominion and a vital resource for the United Kingdom of Greater Brechalon. Seventeen year old sorceress Senta Bly, despite being surrounded by an aura of fear because of her awesome magical powers, is one of the prominent members of the colonial society. Now the colony and the rest of the world are threatened by war between Brechalon and Freedonia.

Senta and others must journey to distant Tsahloose, the city of the lizard king and home of the Dragon God Hissussisthis to find out if peace is still possible.

Meanwhile back in the colony, Governor Iolanthe Dechantagne, Mayor Zeah Korlann, and Police Inspector Saba Colbshallow struggle with the changing society brought on by massive waves of immigrants from Brechalon and refugees from Freedonia.

In this, the final volume in the story of a world not quite like our own Victorian era, Bessemer the Steel Dragon must decide whether his own destiny lies with the sorceress and the girl who raised him or as a god to the fierce lizardmen who dominate the continent of Mallon.

The Sorceress’s Apprentice – A Novel

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The Sorceress’s Apprentice is the second novel in the Steel Dragon trilogy. It takes place three years after the events in The Steel Dragon. Here is a blurb…

A COLONY IN A DISTANT AND STRANGE LAND

Three years have passed and Port Dechantagne is now a thriving colony. Senta Bly, now twelve years old, is the apprentice of the mysterious sorceress Zurfina and is known throughout Birmisia as the Drache Girl. Can she uncover the mysteries of magic and protect the
colony without Zurfina’s help?

Join Senta and the others.

Saba Colbshallow: The child of a servant in the Dechantagne household and now a police constable, unraveling the mystery of the lizardmen’s strange behavior.

Yuah Korlann: Now a wife and mother, caught between two worlds– her ethnic minority status and her new position as a member of the most elite colonial family.

Radley Staff: Returning in triumph to Birmisia to search for new wealth and to see the woman he left so long ago.

Graham Dokkins: The jammiest boy in town knows he’s quite special, and not just because his girlfriend is the world’s most powerful preteen magic user.

And Bessemer, the steel dragon.

The Sorceress’s Apprentice is book two in The Steel Dragon trilogy. It is a novel of adventure and excitement, of prejudice and pain, of growing up, and of friendship in a world not quite like our own Victorian era.

The Steel Dragon – Three Novels

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I wrote a three part 330,000 word manuscript that I called The Steel Dragon. Originally I thought of it as one big novel. Each of the three parts is a self contained story, though each of course is connected to the one before it. I named the three parts Expedition, Colony, and Dominion. There is a time difference of three to five years between each. My heroine is nine years old in part one, twelve in part two, and seventeen in part three. Once I had it complete, it seemed obvious that if I wanted it published, the book would have to become a trilogy. I needed names for the three volumes. The first was obvious– The Steel Dragon. I tried out several possibilities, and eventually came up with the other two titles– The Sorceress’s Apprentice, and The Two Dragons. The final title is both accurate, as there are two dragons in the story, and a nod to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers.