Dragon Clan: In The Beginning

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Note from the Author: Many readers have asked how the story began—the Beginning of the Dragon Clan — this very short introduction is my response. If you have already read the series, you know where the story eventually takes you. If you’re reading this as your first Dragon Clan novel, you have a lot to look forward to when you read the entire series.

Seth avoided the first blow. Shorter than his attacker and far more nimble, he used those qualities to his advantage. The nasty old woman swinging at him was not his mother. She stood tall and weighty, her nose spread across most of her broad face, and she wore a perpetual scowl. After missing him with her first swing, the other hand balled into a fist.

Seth, not yet ten, received most of the woman’s frequent abuse dispensed to the children, unlike his former home when he had lived with his family. All of them were now dead. These strangers who had taken him in were more his masters than family; more slavers than friends.

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