War is coming for the dragon knights…but love may find them first.
A chance meeting with a young male dragon seals the fate of one adventurous female poacher. The dragon’s partner, a ruggedly handsome knight named Gareth, takes one look at the shapely woman and decides to do a little poaching of his own.
Sir Gareth both seduces and falls deeply in love with the girl who is not only unafraid of dragons but also possesses a rare gift—she can hear the beasts’ silent speech. He wants her for his mate, but mating with a knight is no simple thing. To accept a knight, a woman must also accept the dragon, the dragon’s mate…and her knight, Lars, too.
She is at first shocked, then intrigued by the lusty life in the Lair. But war is in the making and only the knights and dragons have a chance at ending it before it destroys their land and their lives.
Maiden Flight, by Bianca D’Arc
Having indulged in a few favorites recently, I was feeling up to something new as I sat waiting for the car at the dealership today. This one was another one of the bargains I picked up on Amazon and I was in the mood for a light read. (I’m still on that not-Regency kick, with a few exceptions. Fair warning.)
Maiden Flight, which is the first in a series, is set in a fantasy world where dragons bond to knights, who are supposed to serve and do all sorts of knightly things (protecting the innocent from marauding creatures, etc.). The knights are exclusively men, although the dragons are a mix of male and female, and it appears (although I’m not 100% sure) that for a man to take a woman as his mate, she must be able to hear the dragons.
The added complication, of course, is that because of the bond between a dragon and his knight, the dragons cannot mate until their human half has an appropriate outlet for the feelings the act inspires. And since the knights are exclusively male and women who can hear the dragons are rare, this typically means that marriage to a dragon knight involves two husbands.
Needless to say this is a somewhat steamy book. The focus is heavy on the dilemma of convincing the heroine to take both Gareth and Lars as her husbands and the secondary issue of convincing her mother, Adora, to move to the Lair as well (there’s some very heavy foreshadowing for the next book) but not a lot of character development or romance. All parties involved fall in love immediately, because fate. The writing style mimics this somewhat, with the focus very much on telling the reader what’s happening.
Still, even if it was more erotica than romance, there were still some interesting ideas and I’d read the next one in the series if it were available on Kindle Unlimited. It’s very much a “what you see in the description is what you get” sort of book so if the description intrigues you, I’d pick it up if the price is reasonable. (Free is always a reasonable price for me.) It definitely met the “light read, bit of fluff” criteria for my read today.