Solstice Dragon World Series by L. Darby Gibbs

You know when Beauty meets the Beast? Yeah, it’s that kind of story.Researcher Shennon Trelor has work to do.She’s earned a coveted spot on the negotiation team selected to bring a close to a war between two kingdoms.A snow storm, a dragon and the labyrinthine archives of High Cadore are not going to interfere with her doing her job.When Shennon arrives late to the negotiation, she’s mistaken for a Question Girl and taken before the Dragon King... moreYou know when Beauty meets the Beast? Yeah, it’s that kind of story.Researcher Shennon Trelor has work to do.She’s earned a coveted spot on the negotiation team selected to bring a close to a war between two kingdoms.A snow storm, a dragon and the labyrinthine archives of High Cadore are not going to interfere with her doing her job.When Shennon arrives late to the negotiation, she’s mistaken for a Question Girl and taken before the Dragon King. Though she makes it abundantly clear she has more important things to do than visit a querying dragon, he wants her to visit each day before she begins her work.The Dragon King needs an answer.His administrator brings a different teenage girl each day to face the question, until the day a woman from a negotiation team is accidentally brought to him.She’s unlike anyone he’s seen in far too long. Perhaps this woman with a knack for finding out answers is who he’s been waiting for.The answer to the question will free him from a curse, but after five hundred years, he doesn’t remember what question he’s supposed to ask or what will happen once he gets his answer.As time passes, it is uncertain if it’s the question and its answer that is binding them together or something much more magical.The shifting moods of the Dragon King and her own unexpected desire to help him pull Shennon into a 500-year-old curse and land her in royal intrigues far beyond her expectations.Will she find the answer to his forgotten question? Will the answer save the king or kill him? less

Dragons can be so demanding at times, even those stuck in stone.Nyle came to Maribelle in a dream demanding she help him reclaim his missing dragon pieces.She has more than enough keeping her busy, except for a man in her life. Adding searching for stone dragon parts seems hardly conducive to improving her love life.Nyle has waited years for someone to fall asleep near him on a solstice day and agree to make him flesh and blood again. He’s not going to allow a man to interfere with his plans... moreDragons can be so demanding at times, even those stuck in stone.Nyle came to Maribelle in a dream demanding she help him reclaim his missing dragon pieces.She has more than enough keeping her busy, except for a man in her life. Adding searching for stone dragon parts seems hardly conducive to improving her love life.Nyle has waited years for someone to fall asleep near him on a solstice day and agree to make him flesh and blood again. He’s not going to allow a man to interfere with his plans.If she can’t locate all the missing pieces, Nyle is doomed to be stone, and she’s going to be stuck with a dragon wandering around in her dreams. A woman needs privacy when she’s asleep.Maribelle has her own goals to achieve, but Nyle’s needs keep getting tangled in her own.When Seth enters her life, helping a dragon becomes a frustrating endeavor that begins to reveal buried fractures in her own family.Will she have time to help Nyle before he’s permanently fractured as well? Does she even want to?Buy this standalone novel in the Solstice Dragon World because dreams are tricky and dragons trickier. less