Are you ready for Champ? This dragon stud might be limited on land thanks to being a water dragon but there's no finer protector for Queen Margery. If you love dragon shifters don't miss this newest installment in the Emerging Queens series. Welcome to part II of my tour stops! LOL :)
He can never have her, but he'll protect her with his life.
After newly shifted sky dragon Queen Margery is rescued from smugglers by water dragon Remy Champlain, she debates whether to flesh out the story that nearly got her killed or embrace her royalty and build a court of protectors and studs. Sparks fly between Remy and her. He’d love her to give up her job and settle down…hopefully with him…but he can’t fly and she can’t swim, so their relationship can never get off the ground.
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Excerpt
2:
The
healing burn of the sun pinned Margery to the ground. Her eyes
wouldn’t open, but she could see the blazing orange from under her
lids. She’d been saved. Pressing her cheek against the sun-warmed
grass, she took a deep breath of fresh air for the first time in a
week. Coughs racked her body. She was still so weak. A tear leaked
out of her eye.
“Please
don’t cry, chérie. You’re safe here.”
That
was the lake dragon. The one who’d helped rescue her. Margery’s
hands clutched the ground. She was no longer on the water, trapped in
a smuggler’s hold hidden under the deck of a yacht. No longer lying
in her own waste, dying a slow and painful death.
“Where
am I?” she asked, her words coming out as a strangled whisper.
“You’re
at my home in North Hero, Vermont. It’s very private here.”
He
had a sexy way of talking. French Canadian accent, if she wasn’t
mistaken. It was comforting, nonthreatening. Margery stretched as the
healing sunbeams sank into her core.
“Your
kidnappers have been brought to justice.”
They
were more than kidnappers. In return for pimping Margery out to
Champ, they had wanted him to turn a blind eye to their smuggling
operation on his lake.
The
doll!
Margery
bolted upright and regretted it immediately. “Where is it?” she
cried. The sun blinded her, but she didn’t care. She groped around
with her hands.
“What?”
he said, panic in his voice.
“The
Smooshie.”
“What
the hell is a—” Champ cut himself off and continued in a more
polite tone. “I don’t understand, my Queen.”
Queen?
Oh, right.
“The
red dragon doll. I had it in my hand when you rescued me. It’s very
important.”
“Uh,
hold on. Let me check my truck.”
She
heard him run.
Great.
He probably thought she was an idiot looking for her little dolly.
Rubbing her eyes,
Margery tried to stand up. But her legs refused to obey her, muscles
trembling as she strained to rise.
The
pirates had grabbed her when her camera’s flash malfunctioned and
went off while she was taking pictures of their illicit
activity—stuffing the dolls with drugs. When they saw her, they
tried to kill her. If she’d been human, they would have. But when
the bullets tore into her, she had instinctively shifted into her sky
dragon form.
She’d
only been a dragon for three weeks. Actually, she had always been a
dragon, but an ancient curse had stopped her shift at puberty and
blocked her dragon magic. When that curse was shattered, all the
suppressed Queens shifted into their true forms. It took a lot of
getting used to. The first week, all she did was cry and break
things. The second week she flew around the world over and over again
until sheer exhaustion claimed her. By the time the third week rolled
around, Margery figured she’d better get over herself and return to
her career as an investigative reporter.
My Review
I absolutely love this series!! It's become so much fun to see how everyone who was "emerged" in dragon form after the curse was broken. I still freaking love seeing viola and Sergei and carolyn and reed. So we see some of our old friends meet up with new friends. Marge- I gave a her a nick name- and Remy Champlain, aka Champ. And we can't forget our not so humble Chinese rock star dragon. It was hilarious seeing him try to be humble which just didn't happen. Lol and we're finally seeing what our bad guy has been doing- stealing drugs to give to humans to further a greedy dragon cause. Can't say more than that thought.
So Champ is a water dragon- his mommy is none other than Nessie!!- and when he helps rescue Marge from the boat that held her captive, he can't help himself, it was his territory she was hurt on so he will protect her while she heals. Yeah they just can't help themselves either, except they have to because so many things get in their way. First, Marge has a form of PTSD, then bad guys try to kill her, then studs are popping up from every corner because she's a new queen, and then because things just happen. Lol! I loved that Marge was her own person, she would never let turning into a dragon queen change her, she's a reporter and she always will be. She's not formal and she will not abide by stupid rules. I loved seeing the three girls together too! And Remy is his own hero. He knows that since Marge is a sky dragon, he can't have her, he's a water dragon, and sky dragons can only mate in one way, and he can't do that. But that doesn't stop him from wanting to give his life to protect hers.
And so we have a very fun adventure, with some enlightening things happening that will effect future books, and on top of that, I am super pumped with what I know now and how things are turning out for the series. I am also thrilled that there's more books coming in the future! YAY!!!! So of course I say, fantastic writing, excellent addition to the series, and I just adore these crazy dragons!! 5 PAWS!!!
And don't miss the rest of the Emerging Queens series:
FBI dragon Reed’s disdain for humans can’t mask the magnetic attraction he has for Carolyn, but when she tells him she’s going to shift into a dragon he thinks she’s crazy. A female hasn’t been hatched, or shape shifted, in over a thousand years. He’s proven wrong after Carolyn shifts and is named the new Queen on the block. When the Cult of Humanity kidnaps Carolyn to sacrifice her, Reed must face his fears—and feelings, racing to save the woman he realizes he can’t live without.
Viola Pierce has never had particularly great luck with guys. That is, until the day she shifts into a glorious, deadly, three-headed dragon. As it turns out, Viola is a dragon Queen. As a rule, Sergei hates Queens, but the Viola's beauty and humanity reach something deep within him. When she names him her protector and consort—quite by accident—a heated and unexpected attraction grows. But the dragon court is ruthless...and what doesn't kill Viola will only make her more dangerous.
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About the author:
Jamie Kleinkauf-Schmidt has over thirty short stories published in small press and ezines. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in Secondary Education English, which is a fancy way of saying she went to college to teach high school English. When that didn’t pan out, she worked as a call center manager, a Tupperware consultant, a paralegal, and finally a technical writer for a major conglomerate company. She is an active member in the Romance Writers of America (RWA), serving as the PRO liaison for her local chapter Connecticut Romance Writers of America (CTRWA).
Jamie Kleinkauf-Schmidt has over thirty short stories published in small press and ezines. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in Secondary Education English, which is a fancy way of saying she went to college to teach high school English. When that didn’t pan out, she worked as a call center manager, a Tupperware consultant, a paralegal, and finally a technical writer for a major conglomerate company. She is an active member in the Romance Writers of America (RWA), serving as the PRO liaison for her local chapter Connecticut Romance Writers of America (CTRWA).
When not writing, Jamie relaxes with a mug of hot tea and knits or makes beaded jewelry. She sells her handcrafted items at The Dudley Farm during the summer. A voracious reader, Jamie has a Kindle and is not afraid to use it.
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