Kirjahaku

Tabitha is a simple country girl in a simple country town-or so she tries to make everyone believe. But when a boy with a quiet confidence and appealing edge shows up in town looking to collect beautiful images, it's Tabitha he ends up most drawn to.Life is never simple, and the complications aren't only on her side. There are mysteries to be solved, and Tabitha fears all of her questions will lead only to bad news.

Myrdu is an Avlan, part of a proud warrior race. He has family on Avla, mothers, broodmates, a daughter. But one day he finds that it's all a lie-that Myrdu himself is a lie. Myrdu's lifetime is only one of many in the unfolding memory of Okka, the shapeshifter, Okka, the spy. But Okka's mission on Avla has come to a bitter end, and xir homeworld has fallen. Xe cannot stay on Avla now that xe knows what xe is. Okka flees to Earth, hoping to buy xemself time, hoping against hope to find some way to save the Mimica homeworld. Okka does not expect to find humans that xe can call family, not in the way that Mimica can be to each other.Okka does not expect Waverly Kemp.

Chivaka West is a half-dragon, a former Movrekt soldier who has built a home for herself in what was once enemy territory. Violence and coercion are things she is intimately familiar with. Then there are the arts of trust, safety, friendship, charting her own course both in conflict and in love, and, of course, magic. These are things she is only now learning. And they are not easy lessons. In her new family, Chivaka has some of the best teachers she could ever wish for. Isis Va, her daughter Ezri, and the irrepressible Eben Keth teach her more every day about all the ways life can be more complex and more brilliant than she was first taught. But there are things that she must do for herself. Questions only she can build the answers to. Only she can help the Movrekt people, her people, learn to stop destroying themselves and survive in the different world they have all found themselves in after the disastrous Battle of Philadelphia, the main conflict of the third Dragon Civil War.