Striking The Flint: The Dragon Duels, #0.5

By Laura Greenwood

A deadly game and a choice no one should have to make.

 

When Piper Miller is drafted to be a contestant in the Dragon Duels, she knows she's about to face something horrific.

 

Thrown into an arena with fifty other prisoners, mostly those convicted of petty crimes like hers, she has to survive ten days under the constant threat of death from exposure, other contestants, and the fire-breathing dragons that no one can predict.

 

Alongside her childhood friend, Joseph, she does her best to survive everything thrown at her. Can she survive the inaugural Dragon Duels?

 

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Striking The Flint is a prequel to the Dragon Duels series, an urban fantasy adventure with a dystopian flare and a slow burn m/f romantic subplot.

 

If you like deadly competitions, low-key magic, dystopian settings, dragons, and slow-burn romantic subplots, start the Dragon Duels series today with Stoking The Embers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Drowlgon Press
• Release date: Nov 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393692959

Laura Greenwood

Laura is a USA Today Bestselling Author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy romance. When she's not writing, she drinks a lot of tea, tries to resist French macarons, and works towards a diploma in Egyptology. She lives in the UK, where most of her books are set. Laura specialises in quick reads, with healthy relationships and consent positive moments regardless of if she's writing light-hearted romance, mythology-heavy urban fantasy, or anything in between. You can find a full book list and more information on her website, or in The Paranormal Council Facebook Group. Happy Reading!

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Striking The Flint

The Dragon Duels #0.5

Laura Greenwood

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Epilogue

Also by Laura Greenwood

About the Author

© 2020 Laura Greenwood

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Striking The Flint is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Blurb

When Piper Miller is drafted to be a contestant in the Dragon Duels, she knows she's about to face something horrific.

Thrown into an arena with fifty other prisoners, mostly those convicted of petty crimes like hers, she has to survive ten days under the constant threat of death from exposure, other contestants, and the fire-breathing dragons that no one can predict.

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Alongside her childhood friend, Joseph, she does her best to survive everything thrown at her. Can she survive the inaugural Dragon Duels?

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Starting The Fire is a prequel to the urban fantasy dystopian series, The Dragon Duels. It is set approximately 150 years before the events of the main series and follows Piper as she competes in the first ever Duels. There is a romantic m/f sub-plot.

1

A shiver runs down my spine as the cold and damp of the cell seep into my bones.

Who am I kidding? They’ve both been there a long time, and there’s nothing I can do about it. All I did was take the blame for a little girl stealing some bread.

I snort.

Who’s making noise? one of the other prisoners snaps.

I roll my eyes. It isn’t like he can do anything to me. Not in the medieval style conditions they keep us in. No one seeing this would believe it’s the same era as the one in the city, with fancy computers and pills to make sure people don’t gain weight.

There are no such worries here. The daily mush they give us is barely enough for someone to survive on, never mind get fat.

Miller, a guard barks, but my name barely registers any more. No one uses it.

I don’t respond. He’ll come to the door and probably kick something through, and I don’t have to do anything.

To my surprise, a key scrapes in the lock.

I cock my head to the side. This hasn’t