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Unfortunately we do not have an image of these large hunters, the ones that cornered Brom and Trissy in the woods, making that proud fierce dragon feel foolish. Athena will draw them up for us, but until she does, feel free to make suggestions.

While a puton might look like a fierce predator and I am content not to encounter one while picking berries, two other predators that we see on NewEarth are far deadlier, cunning and dangerous. The humans and dragons can be far more harmful and do greater damage. Separately they are capable of great harm to…

Heron wants to send a message to Trissy’s sisters to say that Trissy and Jenny are alive, that they arrived safely. Trissy knows that her sisters have written her off as crazy and believe she and Jenny are beyond help because she would not turn back. Do you think she wants to contact her sisters…

You get to meet him in book 2, he has a reputation for being a bit of a trouble maker. He hangs with the other rebellious trouble makers and he’s been a friend of Grabon’s for a long time. Brom has a problem, one he has kept mostly to himself, but his friends know what…

One of the strangest parts of being a writer is that these characters that I build become very real to me and I laugh over their triumphs and cry over their failures and sometimes what happens to them breaks my heart. In Gordon’s Pride I shed my first tear when Hanna tries to hand Gordon…

The scene where Trissy and Hanna meet for the first time, when Heron and Gordon leave them alone in Hanna’s kitchen, is so intense with unspoken voices. It reminded me of my first time alone with my sister-in-law, so much to say and no graceful way to even begin. Both women had things to say…