The
Dragon King by Candace Blevins
The
Chattanooga Supernaturals Book 1
Genre:
Paranormal romance
Publisher:
Excessica
Date
of Publication: March 20, 2015
Number
of pages: 350
Word
Count: 102,000
Cover
Artist: Syneca Featherstone
Book Description:
Book one of The Chattanooga Supernaturals, paranormal romance with claws...
Aaron Drake is nine thousand years old and one of the last remaining European were-dragons. With no female Dragons, his only hope of children lies in his grandmother's dying words. "The Swan Princesses may be the Dragons' only hope."
Sophia Siyanko is the first Swan Princess without at least one brother to take the throne in Aaron's long memory. However, her father chooses her husband when she’s twelve, and sets the date for her twenty-fifth birthday. She is sequestered in her father's mansion, raised by governesses and tutors to be the future King’s arm candy, and Aaron’s options are limited.
But then Sophia escapes her father’s compound a few weeks before her twenty-fifth birthday. Determined to escape or die trying, she comes to Aaron for help.
To protect her, he’ll have to fight every Swan and Eagle on the planet, most of the Wolves, and all of Faerie.
Also
part of Kirsten O’Shea’s world, Book 2
Excerpt:
“Do
you think it has anything to do with true-love’s kiss?”
He
shook his head. “No.”
I
took a breath and asked before I could chicken out. “Could you kiss
me anyway, just in case?”
Aaron’s
gaze felt as if it penetrated my soul. “Do you know what you’re
asking, Soph? I was prepared to give you a few days to get used to me
touching your hand, your back, your face, before I tried to venture
farther. You froze last night when I touched your back. I assume I’m
going to be your first romantic kiss?”
I
nodded, unable to talk, and he said, “You stole my heart at three,
but I think I fell the rest of the way in love with you when I threw
you in the river. It wasn’t a romantic love then, but it will be,
now.” He shook his head and said, “It is, now.”
“I
was seven!” I finally found my voice, and it came out in almost a
shout.
“I
know.” His smile was gentle, as if he was afraid of spooking me.
“If I kiss you, it won’t be to test out your theory.” His eyes
were intense. Dark. “We need to get to know one another better as
adults, and have a lot of discussions about consequences and
repercussions before we…” He stood, stepped to me, and pulled me
from my chair, drawing me into the warmth of his arms. No one had
ever held me like this, enveloping me, surrounding me, and I had to
think about breathing as his heat and power surrounded me and
threatened to overwhelm me. Holding onto my reactions was hopeless
now, but this was Aaron and he’d never expected me to be someone
I’m not.
“Not
saying no, Princess. I’m giving you a chance to decide for sure,
though.”
I
leaned my head against the hard wall of his chest as I tried to get
my heart to slow down. “Don’t call me Princess.”
“Deal
with it.” No apologies. His voice was a rough scrape over my skin,
but I understood. He wanted me to consider the ramifications of
kissing him — and doing more than kissing — as not only Sophia,
but also the Princess who might want to try to hold the reins as
Queen, one day.
I
needed to know more about him, about us, before I could decide. “You
made this house, in this cave, to hide me.”
He
stilled, frozen in time for a brief second, and then caressed my
back. “To hide supernaturals, Soph. Every way into the cave has a
body of water you must cross, and the air is sucked into the earth in
this cave system and rarely blows out. The crystal formations in the
area help camouflage both of our magical signatures, and with no ley
lines close, not even the Fae have a hope of finding us.”
“Not
many supernaturals have occasion to need to hide from the Fae.”
He
chuckled and kissed the top of my head. I liked this, being so close
to him, feeling the vibrations of his chest as I heard him laugh. His
lips on top of my head, if only for a brief second, set my insides on
fire.
“More
of us need to hide from the Fae than you might think,” he said. “In
my business, when someone comes to me needing protection it’s
always good to have options.” His sigh told me he’d given up on
me deciding whether I wanted a kiss, but when he tried to pull away,
I held on. He relaxed and snuggled me back into him. “I’d given
up on any hope of the swans providing an answer, and then had to feel
guilty when your mother died and the news came that there was one
viable egg, and the Fae announced you were a girl. I felt grief for
your father, and heartache for the child who would be born without a
mother to raise her, but at the same time I felt a spark of hope. And
then I got to know you, came to adore you, and later came to love
you. Part of me wants to spirit you away to an island that shows up
on no maps, and is out of bounds so the Fae can’t get to it from
the Summerlands. I would make you fall in love with me, and try to
figure out how to make it work…but I care too much about you.
You’ve been locked away all your life, and if it kills me, or kills
both of us, I’m going to do everything in my power to give you your
freedom.”
I
gave in to the sensory input snowballing in my brain. For the first
time I my life I didn’t have to worry about revealing my body’s
reactions, so I looked up, caught his gaze, and said, “Kiss me,
Aaron. I don’t want to wait.”
His
face came towards mine, slow, as if he were giving me a chance to
change my mind. He ran his lips across mine, fast, hot. He paused,
pulled back a few millimeters, and then touched his mouth to mine
again, so languorous, delicate, and sensually slow my lips opened to
him without my realizing it. I closed my eyes, relaxed into his arms,
and let him have my mouth, let him do whatever he wanted with it.
His
tongue encouraged mine to move, to do a kind of dance with his, and
once I relaxed into the kiss, my lower body came to life in a way I’d
never experienced and I pressed my thighs together, alarmed he’d
smell what he was doing to me.
The
kiss grew from a slow, relaxed caress to an urgent, demanding, hungry
claim. I felt as if he branded me, owned me, and if he hadn’t ended
it I’m not sure I’d have been able to. I was breathless and
speechless as I opened my eyes to see him watching me, and all I
could do was smile, close my eyes, and rest my face against his
chest. The quick fantasies I’d allowed myself while swimming laps
in the pool, or while showering — places no one was likely to smell
the scent of arousal — were nothing compared to the
larger-than-life reality of Aaron Drake in person.
“If
that wasn’t true love’s kiss then the real thing might be enough
to give someone a heart attack,” I said into his chest. “I had no
idea, Aaron. Is it always like that?”
He
kissed the top of my head and his voice rumbled on my cheek through
his chest. “No, that was an exceptionally good kiss. We have
chemistry, Soph. I knew we would, but it’s nice to have reality
live up to what I’d hoped for.”
About
the Author:
Candace
Blevins is a southern girl who loves to travel the world. She lives
with her husband of 17 years and their two daughters. When not
working or driving kids all over the place she can be found reading,
writing, meditating, or swimming.
Candace writes BDSM Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and is currently writing a Motorcycle Club series.
Her Safeword Series gives us characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a different BDSM issue to resolve. Books are standalone and can be read in any order, with the exception of the two Davenport books, and the four Matte books.
Her urban fantasy series, Only Human, gives us a world where weredragons, werewolves, werelions, three different species of vampires, as well as a variety of other mythological beings exist.
Candace's paranormal romance series, The Chattanooga Supernaturals, is a sister series to the Only Human series, and gives some secondary characters their happily ever after.
You can visit Candace on the web at candaceblevins.com and feel free to friend her on Facebook at facebook.com/candacesblevins and Goodreads at goodreads.com/CandaceBlevins.
You can also join www.facebook.com/groups/CandacesKinksters to get sneak peeks into what she's writing now, images that inspire her, and the occasional juicy blurb.
Candace writes BDSM Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and is currently writing a Motorcycle Club series.
Her Safeword Series gives us characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a different BDSM issue to resolve. Books are standalone and can be read in any order, with the exception of the two Davenport books, and the four Matte books.
Her urban fantasy series, Only Human, gives us a world where weredragons, werewolves, werelions, three different species of vampires, as well as a variety of other mythological beings exist.
Candace's paranormal romance series, The Chattanooga Supernaturals, is a sister series to the Only Human series, and gives some secondary characters their happily ever after.
You can visit Candace on the web at candaceblevins.com and feel free to friend her on Facebook at facebook.com/candacesblevins and Goodreads at goodreads.com/CandaceBlevins.
You can also join www.facebook.com/groups/CandacesKinksters to get sneak peeks into what she's writing now, images that inspire her, and the occasional juicy blurb.
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