18+ Erotic Shapeshifter Romance, fantasy romance, paranormal fantasyThe English Dragon Danburn Everette Hanson Dana Griffith (Coming Soon) Kip (Coming Soon) The injured women in the bed, Emerald, had been poisoned with lead. Dana could smell it on her and he wondered why Danburn hadn’t. With Danburn being the king of the dragons he should have been able to smell it right off, or at least Dana … of the dragons he should have been able to smell it right off, or at least Dana thought so anyway. With the woman’s surly temper Dana should have left her there to suffer alone, but he could smell his mate on her. Since Em was an emerald dragon he deduced that his mate must be another gem to compliment his diamond.
Sapphire had been summoned with the rest of her sisters, Ruby and Opal, to Em’s side. The young girl, Carmine had powerful magic that could extract the lead from Em, but she wasn’t strong enough to get it all out on her own. The sisters would have to combine their magic with Carmine’s or Em wouldn’t survive.
Sapphire knew instantly that Dana was her mate and she wasn’t thrilled about it either. She and her sisters had been around for thousands of years, why did a mate have to muddy the waters now?
Dana wanted to take it slow. They had the rest of their lives to get to know each other. He wanted to court her and ease into the relationship. They were both immortal, so time was on their side, right? Melville James had other ideas. If he couldn’t have the emerald dragon he’d just take the sapphire. After all, her mate hadn’t claimed her yet, and by dragon law that made her easy pickings.
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At first, when I read the title, I automatically thought this would be a female. Boy, was I wrong? Dana is one of Danburn’s friends that had been invited and come for the holidays. He’d no more than arrived when he met a woman who’d come to the castle that spelled of his mate. She wasn’t it, of course, but she had been close to her. Dana was a diamond dragon, not as large as Danburn, but was powerful in his own right. Of all the dragon men, Dana was the most romantic. The woman, Em, was an Emerald dragon, and apparently, she’d been hurt by a human wanting her gems. The iron shiv had been stabbed into her leg. There are several villains in this story, all of which trying to either steal the gem dragons or Carmine plus a young man by the name of Mel. Ms. Barton has woven an exciting tale of romance and chemistry, although not blatant, around a storyline of a town being rebuilt. This was such an easy book to get lost in with all the magic.
I really like these books but honestly they’re not Erotic. They have one sometimes two steamy scenes and they are not that steamy anymore. So don’t go into these books thinking that they’re erotic. They do have good story lines and great characters.
This is probably my least favorite of the English Dragon series.
I guess it felt like it was too much story, but at the same time, not enough.
Dana and Sapphire are dragons who are thousands of years old. They know that mating is inevitable, especially when you find your one. But instead of cementing their bond, they decide to date and get to know each other first since times is something these two immortals seem to have plenty of.
I don’t understand how the villain of the story had any ground to stand on when it came to petitioning for Sapphire, since she wasn’t claimed by her mate. I also wanted to know more about why he was able to do all this, especially considering he’s not a dragon, and had Danburn (who is the king of dragons might I add) scared…
Unlike some of other Kathi’s characters, I didn’t feel the connection between Dana and Sapphire. It seemed like they came together because they had to and decided they loved each other because they’re destined to be each other’s mates.
All in all, this book fell short for me. On a brighter note, I can’t wait to read about Griffith and his brother and mate.
I can’t get enough of this series. it is so full of fantasy. it gots everything a fantasy romance lover would want to read. Dana is a really cool Dragon and his mate is not the one I thought it would be in the last book.
I know every book is about one couple but in my opinion till now all books are really about Carmine she amazes me every time in every book. can’t wait for the next book in this series I can honestly say that this is my favorite series that kathi s barton is writing at the moment. With every new book the series is becoming better and better.
I volunteered to review this story for my honest opinion