Sergeant at Arms

By Crystal Dawn

The males of the planet Draconis lose the planet that supplies their mates to a natural disaster. The females survive, but they have left and spread to the far reaches of the universe. Their eyes turn to Earth. Jarel is sent with five other males to find mates and test the compatibility of Earth females. Their results will determine if their Empire looks to Earth or elsewhere.
Davy is trouble or at least she has trouble following her. It's not her fault, it's all because of her ex-boyfriend who is a criminal and has sent killers after her. She meets Jarel who offers to protect her but she's a little suspicious where men are concerned. Should she trust him, or should she rely only on herself?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crystal Dawn
• Release date: Jun 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310260490

Crystal Dawn

When she’s not out hunting rogue vampires and werewolves, you can find Crystal Dawn out exploring the galaxy. She can do it all without ever leaving her computer. She kicks ass, takes names, and puts it all down for the enjoyment of her readers. At least that’s what I think she told me. Writing came as a natural outlet for her overly creative mind. She has always told stories and even written some but publishing books didn't start until 2012 with The Rebirth, was the first of the Planet Amazon books. Crystal has also been lucky to have some wonderful beta readers who keep her on track and help inspire her.Secretly, she crushes on all her sexy heroes because all her stories end happily. That is one of the things that makes writing such a joy. Knowing that it makes her reader's day a little brighter. Not that she doesn't read sad books sometimes. While still in school, she read Where the Red Fern Grows and cried like a baby. It was a wonderful book and sometimes a bit of sadness has to be put in books because that's part of life. While she reads all kinds of books at some time or another, PNR and SFR, which she writes is what she reads the most for pleasure.When she started writing, she decided on going Indie after the first two books because an author has more control. She believes Indie will compete well and continues to grow. The need to give pleasure to her readers keeps her going and she sees a long career ahead. Growing up mostly in the NW Arkansas area, it has given her a good place to set some stories and many of her characters come from there or nearby SW Missouri.The start of her stories is the easy part. Finishing them is a little harder when all the stories are in there trying to get out. She loves reading, chocolate, fine sweet wine, and traveling among a large list of pursuits. Her favorite people, after her family and close friends, are her readers who she says are some of the most wonderful people in this galaxy and the next.

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Winged Beasts Series

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Sergeant at Arms

By Crystal Dawn

Edited by Addicted to Reviews

Cover by Janiel Escueta Covers

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Prologue

Who ever heard of a race where all births were male? Everyone on the planet Draconis, that’s who. For as far back as anyone could remember, mostly male children had been born on their planet. No one knew why and maybe it had something to do with the fact that his people were shifters, dragon shifters. They had been this way for centuries and would be this way as long as one Draconis lived.

It had been a bit inconvenient having to import women from Laurelia Proper as brides, but the planet rich in females was only too happy to trade its only real commodity for Draconis gold. The trade had worked well enough for all concerned for centuries until the moon of Laurelia had been hit with a giant asteroid and made their planet unlivable. The population had scattered in days of finding out this was about to happen, most going to lands in far distant space and only one ship coming to Draconis to claim sanctuary for the families on board.

Even with three females to each male on the ship, there’d only been three dozen mates available for the Draconis males. None of the higher-level males had found a mate among them and with several of mating age, it was urgent to find a new source of life givers. They had several planets targeted and his group would be one of the first to go to the planet Earth. If they were successful, a group of older and more established males would go next. If they were successful, only then would the royals go because an unsuccessful mating for them might prevent an heir from being born. That was to be prevented at all costs.

Jarel was honored to be chosen with the other five males for this most important mission. He planned to find his mate and bring her back to the ship. Once he had her with him, he would work out everything else. He glanced around at the other males. They would all stand out on Earth since six foot six was their average height and all their kind were muscular. Hopefully, it would draw the females to them.

Earth was the farthest any of them had been from home. With the fast ships they had, it had actually been much faster than it would have been even a year ago. Ten days might not seem long to some, but when your future awaited you, it seemed to drag on endlessly. The only thing that made it bearable, was the modern and well-equipped facilities on this ship that the old ones hadn’t had. In the past, comfort had not been a consideration in their ship designs.

Even with sharing such wonderful facilities, such as a gym, spa, game room, and kitchen on the ship, it could compete with any on their planet of equal size, none of the males had become close. He suspected some of them felt competitive even though they had been assured there were plenty of females to choose from and the females would have the biggest say in the choosing. For now, he would just pray that the goddess sent his one perfect match to the city they were now headed to.

Sergeant at Arms

Chapter 1

The Chase

Davinia was unhappy with her name and had been all her life. That was why she went by Davy. It was funny how random thoughts like those came to you when you feared your life was about to end. This was her own fault, but that didn’t make her lament the end any less. She was in her extra closet, and they were out there searching her apartment for her or some sign of where she might have disappeared to.

What are you doing, Dufus? a squeaky male voice asked.

Dammit. Sam, you know it’s Rufus!

Whatever you go by, stop fucking around and help me here, Sam said.

We haven’t looked in this thing yet, Rufus said.

It’s an armoire, Sam said.

Yeah, that thing.

It’s locked from the outside, so she’s not in it, Sam said.

Maybe something worth money’s in there, Rufus said.

You’re on a fucking treasure hunt while I’m doing all the work? Sam asked, his voice harsh.

It’s just a little bomb. You set them all the time, Rufus said.

Well, this one’s done, and we have thirty minutes to get as far away as we can before it blows. Why don’t you just stay here and hunt for valuables, you dumbfuck!

Shit! Don’t leave without me, Rufus whined, and she heard heavy steps moving quickly away from her. The door opened and a minute later slammed shut.

Pushing open the side door to the armoire that the men hadn’t noticed, she got out. Damn, they’d messed up the place. Quickly she grabbed two bags loading clothing, personal items, and getting her money out of the fake bottom of the armoire she’d been in. Although she’d been saving for a house, she knew that had been a pipe dream. She knew she’d be running for the rest of her life because there was no place that would ever be safe from the long arm of her ex-boyfriend. Joe Maggio had been sent here to Las Vegas by the mob to find out who had started this new gambling hot spot ten miles south of here. They just wanted information, but he planned to muscle in on the action.

Joe was sweet, romantic, and gorgeous. He was the perfect man until you dug deep and found out what he was really like. Before she’d had shitty luck with men, but this time won the prize. She’d found out about his business