D C Harrell: 8 books

A double dragon dare. A brother’s worst nightmare. Fisherman’s sons are starving. To distract them, the neighbor terrifies them with clootie stories. Then one night, Fisherman’s net snags Old Cloot himself and in the morning, the boys taunt each other into filling their bellies...

Come not between a dragon and its sass! Hunger, cunning, smart-talk, blood-power, tenacity, and cocky composure power the adventures of six everyday champions as they battle sea-serpents and cryptids, dragons and way-drakes. With the collected Dragon Fairy Tales, D.C. Harrell lures you...

Would you sell your soul to save your skin? The innkeeper’s daughter dreams of a dashing knight and beautiful dresses, but her father marries her off to a lazy woodcutter. So she takes matters—and her husband’s stolen guilders—into her own hands. Little does she know that greed...

Talk is not cheap! Stutter is the fourth of twelve sons and no one ever listens to him. So when he warns his brothers to stay on the serpent-blaze trail, they ignore him, straying into dangerous territory. Something is out there. It hunts them through the forest. Can Stutter talk...

Save the baby. Save the world. Tungel is pregnant, and the baby’s father is absent. As her contractions escalate, way-drakes slither closer, scorching the furniture and threatening to set the house on fire. The fire dragons thirst for her baby’s blood. Tungel must flee to the river...

Well behaved women seldom make handbags. Rohi hates handbags, but Mama insists she learn to handcraft one. First she must hunt a dragon; then fashion her own lady-case from its hide. But Rohi’s convinced that following this tradition won’t really help the family purse business stay...

The bigger the hair, the stronger the stare. While her parents are fishing, Amma feeds her seven siblings and readies them for school each morning. She doesn’t have time for intricate hairstyles, but Grandma insists that pretty locks, not an education, will impress potential suitors and stop...

All the King's horses, and all the King's men, couldn't put the kingdoms together again... Twelve authors come together with never before seen short stories with one common theme - the rise or fall of the empires. Read their stories and lose yourself in the twists and turns between betrayal,...