From the author of the USA Today bestselling Stonefire Dragons series comes a new series centering on the dragon-shifters of the Scottish Highlands. Full of humor, alpha personalities, and a new threat, Clan Lochguard is waiting for you…
BOOK ONE
In order to pay for her father’s life-saving cancer treatment, Holly Anderson offers herself up as a sacrifice and sells the vial of dragon’s blood. … vial of dragon’s blood. In return, she will try to bear a Scottish dragon-shifter a child. While the dragonman assigned to her is kind, Holly can’t stop looking at his twin brother. It’s going to take everything she has to sleep with her assigned dragonman. If she breaks the sacrifice contract and follows her heart, she’ll go to jail and not be able to take care of her father.
Even though he’s not ready to settle down, Fraser MacKenzie supports his twin brother’s choice to take a female sacrifice to help repopulate the clan. Yet as Fraser gets to know the lass, his dragon starts demanding something he can’t have—his brother’s sacrifice.
Holly and Fraser fight the pull between them, but one stolen kiss will change everything. Will they risk breaking the law and betraying Fraser’s twin? Or, will they find a way out of the sacrifice contract and live their own happily ever after?
HEA, Full-length book with NO cliffhangers / 18+, explicit language and sexual situations / approx. 70,000 words (300 print pages)
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DELICIOUSLY CUTE AND DELIGHTFULLY ENTERTAINING !!!
Title: The Dragon’s Dilemma
Series: Lochguard Highland Dragons
Designation: Book One, Standalone Novel, No Cliffhanger
Author: Jessie Donovan
My Rating: FIVE DRAGO-LICIOUS STARS*****
Wow! Another rollicking, fun-filled, laugh-out-loud, feel-good romantic adventure from Jessie Donovan! She truly knows how to tickle our funny-bone, warm our hearts and leaves us with a smile on our face every single time. Reading has always been my passion and I’ve certainly read an unfathomable number of books in my sixty-three years of life but, hands down, one of the best decisions I’ve ever made was purchasing and reading my first Jessie Donovan novel. She never fails to deliver not only an exceptionally well developed, well written and well edited book but also what I like to call a grab-you, keep-you story with engaging and endearing characters. And this book is no exception! Once you start reading, you simply can’t put it down! Although this story can be read as a standalone, I would like to also highly recommend reading all of her previously published Stonefire British Dragon Series. If you enjoy this story, then you will absolutely love her other dragon-shifter books as well.
Lovely Scottish nurse and midwife Holly Anderson has totally run out of options which happened when she unfortunately ran out of money. She has no other family and now has no further recourse available to her other than to quite literally sell herself as a willing sacrifice to the Lochguard Dragon Clan in exchange for a vial of dragon blood. Huh? Sacrifice??? Oh yes, but don’t worry, the dragons don’t intend to eat her, at least, not in the way you might think. Just a little lascivious humor, folks. Although the dragon blood can not heal her father’s cancer, it can be sold to provide the funds to cover the cost of his expensive cancer treatments. Now all she has to do is travel to Clan Lochguard and offer herself to her preassigned dragonman, Fergus MacKenzie, and provide him with a child. Huh? Oh, and somehow manage to survive the unfavorable odds of dying while giving birth to said dragon-shifter baby. Oh my! Then and only then can she return home to care for her recovering father. Regrettably, the one thing Holly had not anticipated was being attracted to her dragonman’s twin brother, Fraser MacKenzie. What? And falling in love with him! Oh my! She’s the first human sacrifice to set foot on Lochguard land in fifteen years and if she fails to fulfill her contract with the Department of Dragon Affairs, she could be held liable and put in prison. Oh no! And sadly, that’s only one of many problems to be overcome. There’s also the matter of the rogue dragons who want to kidnap and kill her. What the heck? What’s a stubborn bonnie lass to do???
Dragonman Fraser MacKenzie only wanted to get a sneak peek at his brother’s new human sacrifice to make sure the human was worthy of his twin. Unfortunately, he had not counted on his dragon’s reaction to the beautiful spirited female. What’s a dragon to do when he realizes his true mate is promised to his twin brother??? I’ll never tell. No spoilers from me but I will say this….Handsome, flirtatious dragon shifter-check! Beautiful sassy human midwife – check! A villainous group of rogue dragons-check! A wonderful cast of characters-check! Danger, drama, adventure and a nefarious plot-check! Heated attraction, steamy passion, heartbreaking angst, heartwarming romance, dreamy sex and a healthy measure of humor-you bet! That and a whole lot more! Deliciously cute and delightfully entertaining!!!
Interesting and engrossing take on dragon shifters in the “real” world, but some sort of alternate universe where the modern and the medieval blend together.
Everlasting and unconditional love, my foot!
The Dragon’s Dilemma posed a dilemma for me – abandon it or plough on through. The plot wasn’t all that original, and in the hands of good writer it could have been interesting. Instead I found myself skipping over the repetitive sex scenes with their unsexy talk. The interaction between characters was probably intended as endearing family teasing, but I got no enjoyment from the juvenile taunting, wrestling, and insults – everyone in this lot was just plain RUDE, CRUDE, and socially backward. Didn’t like them, or the endlessly argumentative Holly, who prefaced every declaration of affection with a threat, made every request into a negotiation, and put conditions on her affection. I made myself finish it, but will read no more of the series.
I enjoyed the series
My Thoughts – 5 out of 5 Unicorns – I loved it!!!
***Received the ebook from the author from an honest review
The cover is amazing as always 🙂
This is the first in a spin-off series from the Stonefire Dragon series. You can start reading here, but I definitely do NOT recommend it. If you want to understand the world and characters, I highly recommend starting with the Stonefire series because it makes everything amazingly better 🙂 As with the other series, this is for adults only due to the steamy dragon enhanced scenes.
This is Fraser’s story (he is one of the twins who are Finn’s cousins and Faye’s sister). I was pulled right into the story and loved that it was a complete story, so no waiting for parts to come out (not that I wouldn’t wait for Jessie’s stories because they always rock!) Holly is a firecracker, and I loved her humor as well as the lesson she teaches Fraser’s dragon (had me rollin’, but I refused to ruin the surprise)! I know I will love this series as much as the Stonefire series, and I can’t wait to see what Jessie cooks up next 🙂
I highly recommend this dragontastic series!!
I want a dragon shifter
Loved it!!
Was an ok read.
Bought the rest of the series
Fun to read.
pretty sexy for shifter books… but kind of a lame story overall.
I have read better books. Not having read, or even heard of, her previous books, I was often unclear about various actions. Anne McCaffrey she’s not!
Great read. I was captivated.
It’s best to read in suggested by author order.
fun read