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    Dragonsapien
    Dragonsapien
    Dragonsapien
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    Dragonsapien

    By Jon Jacks

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    We thought dragons were extinct – now we’re the ones facing extinction

    Dragons didn’t go away – they just evolved.
    They look, act, and think like humans.
    So when Jake and the beautiful Celeste (Celly) fall in love, how is he supposed to know that she’s a dragon?
    With wings that can propel her through the air at ridiculous speeds. Talons that shred as easily as butchers knives. And skin that glitters like molten gold.
    And when the dragons are discovered living amongst us, man turns on them, fearing them, hoping to confine them, imprison them.
    But under Celly’s leadership, the dragons have decided to fight back.
    Whose side should Jake take?
    His choice will decide an entire species’ fate.
    Will it be man or the dragons who face extinction?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Jacks
    Release dateOct 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301648238
    Dragonsapien
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    Jon Jacks

    While working in London as, first, an advertising Creative Director (the title in the U.S. is wildly different; the role involves both creating and overseeing all the creative work in an agency, meaning you’re second only to the Chairman/President) and then a screenwriter for Hollywood and TV, I moved out to an incredibly ancient house in the countryside.On the day we moved out, my then three-year-old daughter (my son was yet to be born) was entranced by the new house, but also upset that we had left behind all that was familiar to her.So, very quickly, my wife Julie and I laid out rugs and comfortable chairs around the huge fireplace so that it looked and felt more like our London home. We then left my daughter quietly reading a book while we went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat.Around fifteen minutes later, my daughter came into the kitchen, saying that she felt much better now ‘after talking to the boy’.‘Boy?’ we asked. ‘What boy?’‘The little boy; he’s been talking to me on the sofa while you were in here.’We rushed into the room, looking around.There wasn’t any boy there of course.‘There isn’t any little boy here,’ we said.‘Of course,’ my daughter replied. ‘He told me he wasn’t alive anymore. He lived here a long time ago.’A child’s wild imagination?Well, that’s what we thought at the time; but there were other strange things, other strange presences (but not really frightening ones) that happened over the years that made me think otherwise.And so I began to write the kind of stories that, well, are just a little unbelievable.

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