Never a Dragon

Written by Kevin McLaughlin and Michael Anderle

Narrated by Nicole Poole

Dragons used to rule the world; those days are over. But humans, mages, and dragons have just begun learning to co-exist without conflict.

Kylara Diamantine has never met another dragon. Raised by her mother apart from the rest of their society without any idea why, she's always been curious about the rest of their species. She wants to get out there, to meet other dragons, to explore! To stretch her wings. Literally.

Be careful what you wish for, they say. They're right.

After a devastating magical attack on their home leaves Ky's mother missing, she's placed at a special school for her protection. A school for dragons-but this year, for the first time, mages will be attending alongside their scaley fellow students to learn more about magic and draconic powers.

The attacker who stole away Kylara's mother isn't finished yet and turns up the heat on the school. Ky's dragon powers keep growing in mysterious ways, but will even that be enough to save her?

Ky is a stranger in a place she doesn't know, under attack and desperate to find her missing mother. She'll need all her courage and strength to survive the tests ahead of her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Mar 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705292501

Kevin McLaughlin

Kevin McLaughlin was Dean of Faculty at Brown University from 2011–22. He is George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Brown. He is the author of Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant (Stanford University Press, 2014), Paperwork: Literature and Mass Mediacy in the Age of Paper (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), and Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stanford University Press, 1995), and the co- translator with Howard Eiland of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (Harvard University Press, 1999).