The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.
I'm taking a little break from To Love the Dragon King snippets to share from The Dragon's Devotion, which has been out in the world eight years this past week. The Dragon's Devotion is the fifth book in the Chronicles of Tournai series, but like the others in the series, it stands alone. It's also the first dragon shifter book in the series (and the first dragon shifter book I wrote!). In it, Corentin is a scholar trying to ensure that no one learns he's a dragon shifter or that others exist when he meets Bastien, an earl who has just learned that his parents' death years ago might have been murder and not an accident. Neither should fall in love with the other, but they can't help themselves and when Bastien's inquiries into his parents' death put him in danger, Corentin is left to decide if he can reveal the greatest secret of his people to save the man he loves. This snippet comes from the beginning.
The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.
I'm taking a little break from To Love the Dragon King snippets to share from The Dragon's Devotion, which has been out in the world eight years this past week. The Dragon's Devotion is the fifth book in the Chronicles of Tournai series, but like the others in the series, it stands alone. It's also the first dragon shifter book in the series (and the first dragon shifter book I wrote!). In it, Corentin is a scholar trying to ensure that no one learns he's a dragon shifter or that others exist when he meets Bastien, an earl who has just learned that his parents' death years ago might have been murder and not an accident. Neither should fall in love with the other, but they can't help themselves and when Bastien's inquiries into his parents' death put him in danger, Corentin is left to decide if he can reveal the greatest secret of his people to save the man he loves. This snippet comes from the beginning.
In the privacy of his small office, Corentin circled his neck and rolled his bare shoulders and back, trying to loosen the stiffness there—impossible because his muscles weren’t really stiff. But he did it anyway. It was just that he hadn’t changed and stretched his wings in far too long. Whether real or imagined, it had always been this way if he didn’t use his Talent regularly. Only how was he to accomplish that in this place?
There wasn’t anywhere in the capital city where he could change unseen, and few places close to Jumelle where a large dragon would go unnoticed.
But while he was in Tournai, he’d have to deal with it. He’d managed a few night flights out over the sea when there wasn’t much moonlight. He’d have to get away for another as soon as he could without rousing suspicion. Not that he was being watched, or that anyone suspected what he was, but if a foreign scholar slipped away too many times with no explanation and someone were to notice... He didn’t want to take the risk. He’d come to the principality of Tournai to make sure no one knew of dragons; he wasn’t going to risk anyone finding out from him.
You can find out more about The Dragon's Devotion, including where to buy it, here. Thanks for reading today!
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