Ruler of the Mind: Crimson Dragon, #5

By Ophelia Kee

Ruler of the Mind

Crimson Dragon Volume 5 

 

Sometimes dreams come true! 

 

Misty Todofer is a magically gifted woman who prefers books over people for fear of harming them. After being drugged, kidnapped and raped, she conjures up a fantasy lover to ease the loneliness and the nightmares. 

 

Only Winter McLyons isn't a figment of her imagination. He's real, a sexier than hell red dragon immortal, and he's hunting the men responsible for what happened to her.

 

Will he be able to avenge the wrongs perpetrated against his Valkyrie and help Misty move beyond her past? Will Misty be able to accept the fact that Winter is more than a fantasy lover her mind conjured to escape the pain of her past? Find out if the magic of Draoithe can aid a Ruler of the Mind.

 

It's more than a story; it's an experience. Welcome to the dream...

 

Steamy Paranormal Romance 18+ HEA! NC! Fated Mates Urban Fantasy

***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ophelia Kee
• Release date: Mar 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201559670

Ophelia Kee

Not who everyone thinks she is.  The product of someone’s imagination.  The end result of a lifetime wishing to get out. Do not buy the lie. If you live in fear, you give up freedom. Taking the risk and making the leap. Too much of anything is a bad thing. Innuendo floating on the mist that rises above the water. Walk away and leave it all behind. Telling the story that haunts a fantasy. Catching a dream. She does not exist. -Ophelia Kee

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Ruler of the Mind

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To my crazy muse,

who demanded I publish this part of the miniseries first,

even if it is volume 5.

Introduction

Draoithe Saga

Draoithe Saga

Steamy hot, wickedly delicious paranormal romance, magical realism, and urban fantasy stories set in a dream to live for!

Those who come to Draoithe aid in the fight to restore the magical balance of the dream, one couple at a time.

Grab a good drink, curl up in a good seat, choose a book from the Saga, and escape into the dream while you meet the men and women who call it home.

Draoithe is a world in which myths, legends, and fairytales walk among the strange and wonderful.

They often find balance in a lifemate, and the magic from the past lives again!

Welcome to the dream...

Steamy Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance Stories with Fated Mates 18+ HEA! NC!

***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.

A Note from Ophelia Kee

A Note from Ophelia Kee

Note to the Reader:

A saga is defined as a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative often found in Old Norse or Old Icelandic. It’s a form of the novel in which the members of a social group chronicle a long story detailing a dramatic history.

Compartmentalized in several miniseries for easier reading, the Draoithe Saga tells the story of the founding of an immortal kingdom in the Leaindeail to combat those responsible for unbalancing the magic of the dream. It’s told through the eyes of those connected with its creation and the readers see the story through tales of couples who find hope through their connection to Draoithe.

The central time frame is the year 2016, although pertinent information from the past reveals itself as the characters understand it. The central place is an eerily familiar yet magical realist, Tyler, Texas. As the tale draws out, other kingdoms set in other locations interact with the Druid pack to bring about the end of Peter Elliot and restore the balance of magic, so those tales, too, became a part of the Draoithe Saga as well. Cameo appearances of characters from other tales are common. Overlapping scenes from the events often relates alternate perspectives as the story unfolds.

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Story Description

Ruler of the Mind

Ruler of the Mind

Ruler of the Mind, a Crimson Dragon Tale. 

Misty Todofer is a magically gifted woman who prefers books over people for fear of harming them. After being drugged, kidnapped and raped, she conjures up a fantasy lover to ease the loneliness and the nightmares. 

Only Winter McLyon isn’t a figment of her imagination. He’s real, a sexier than hell red dragon immortal, and he’s hunting the men responsible for what happened to her.

Will he be able to avenge the wrongs perpetrated against his Valkyrie and help Misty move beyond her past?

Will Misty be able to accept the fact that Winter is more than a fantasy lover her mind conjured to escape the pain of her past?

Find out if the magic of Draoithe can aid a Ruler of the Mind.

It's not just a story, it's an experience. Welcome to the dream…

Steamy Paranormal Romance 18+ HEA! NC! Fated Mates Urban Fantasy

***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.

Character Introduction 1

Meet the Main Characters of Ruler of the Mind

Winter McLyon

Winter McLyon

Winter McLyon

The dragon Flash once lived as a man, a knight in a medieval world which still believed in magic.

Resurrected upon his death by a greedy shaman, Winter McLyon, who held the magic of the dream in his mind, became a weapon for kings and a spy for the realm.

When the magic fell out of balance and the political order of the medieval time faded into modernity, an immortal dragon lived on, broken and alone, searching for any way to feel alive.

Then a mouse seeking help in the dream’s darkness found him and an old dragon knight had a new mission.

Character Introduction 2

Meet the Main Characters of Ruler of the Mind

Misty Todofer

Misty Todofer

Misty Todofer

A woman born with a curse lived a life of fear.

Her loneliness led to a traumatic event, but her friends were all more than they seemed.

From bondage, she landed in a sanctuary for those who wielded magic in a world which no longer believed it existed.

The road back to mental stability was a long one, and when she invented a dream lover to chase the nightmares away,

Misty Todofer believed healing was a possible.

She never counted on a dragon Ruler of the Mind appearing before her to claim his Valkyrie.

Contents

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Prologue

1.Must Contend

2.We Waited

3.Analyze It Later

4.Did It Matter

5.If You Ever Need Me

6.A Dark Knight

7.Vengeance

8.Imaginary Lover

9.A Real One

10.Life Improved

11.Give It All

12.Know So Desperately

13.Needed To See

14.Sweetest Torture

15.Too New

16.With Her

17.Could Do Anything

18.Misty Smiled

19.Everything

20.The Report

21.Ruler of the Mind

Epilogue 1

Epilogue 2

Epilogue 3

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Magic Scroll

Magic Scroll

Dear Reader,

Ruler of the Mind is Volume 5

in the Crimson Dragon Miniseries.

I hope you enjoy it all.

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Welcome to the dream...

Prologue

The Draoithe Saga muse is insane. She saw a picture of an Aston Martin Valkyrie and the story of the Ruler of the Mind began.

Aston Martin Valkyrie

Aston Martin Valkyrie

Once billed as the world's fastest street legal automobile, as with all luxury cars, it came with a price tag to match. For an immortal dragon with plenty of hoarded treasure to spend, this vehicle seemed like the closest Winter would ever come to claiming his Valkyrie. Until Misty stepped into his mind and called him to her from California.

When a Ruler of the Mind demands a man's presence, it's best to be in a hurry.

Welcome to the dream…

Chapter one

Must Contend

Misty

The trip out of Tempe was long and arduous. She’d been numb except for the ache in her broken arm. She ate and drank, talked to Laney and Miles when she had to do so, and watched the landscape change in a daze as they passed through New Mexico and Texas.

Had it been so wrong to want to fit in somewhere? She wanted to belong. A few friends were all she’d asked, to have a place to fit in, people who understood her. The price she paid was too high. Misty blocked it out.

Arriving at Draoithe was like going from the worst situation she’d ever found herself in, to a high-class luxury hotel. The log cabin-style resort with its library and garage buildings crafted the same way was over the top gorgeous. A woman she later knew to be a sorceress and a Valkyrie Jewel used white magic to heal her arm and erase the poisonous drugs from her system. It was as if it had never happened.

Only no one could erase her memories and the horror she’d lived through. Still, Draoithe was beautiful and calm. That helped.

The healing began. Life at Draoithe took on a routine, as life does. A little at a time, Misty claimed her life back. Her youth and mental fortitude struggled to overcome the pain and fear. A few cups of hot tea, plenty of good books, meditation, and a bit of communing with nature saw her feel like herself, albeit a broken version. Being herself rather than some stranger had to be a step in the right direction.

Draoithe allowed her to see a world she’d never even dreamed of. People held magic and power, but it was clean rather than the evil someone had recently subjected her to. The denizens of Draoithe didn’t see her as strange or some misfit to be avoided. Misty fit somewhere for the first time.

Her friend Miles had stumbled on a haven for the gifted and magically inclined of the world when he sought help from Fox. The art dealer had once learned of his secret telekinetic painting style and offered him help. Being who he was, he’d kept the card she gave him with no intention of using it.

Miles had called in a favor from the mysterious benefactor left on a business card after Misty and Brenda’s abduction, and he thought he’d lost Laney too. He’d found a place for misfits and one-of-a-kind people, a realm of magic and immortality. No one thought her out of place.

Misty’s lifelong love of books led her to a library in the beginning stages of being set up and cataloged. She learned about immortals and magic as she sifted through boxes of manuscripts, scrolls, and journals. Working with the books and learning about magic made her life make more sense.

The curse she lived with, as she learned about magic, seemed not so terrible. She leapt from her own head. It afflicted some with uncontrollable lightning, shadows, fire, etc...

Life grew easier. She occupied her first days in her sanctuary, looking over and helping to catalog the items in the library.

Trying to understand how magic