Cocooned: AFV Defender

By Michelle L. Levigne

For forty years, the Hiver menace has left devastation in its wake: prisoners bound in cocoons, trapped in living death, with no known way to safely free them.

 

Then the dragons of Castitarus, the Numenjax, chose Confri to become caretaker for a Numenjax egg and pair with the hatchling. Hope returned to the caretakers of hundreds of cocoons, when young Jax's presence awoke brain activity within the cocoons.

 

Now, in the wake of the mission to Xanprecis and the shattering of a broken Gate, the missing element might finally be in the hands of the Alliance. Will Jax be able to harness the untamed, alien energy, and break the hold the cocoons hold on their prisoners?

 

M'kar, Thyal, the Defender and all their dracs return to Anwesta Medical Station to make that risky first attempt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ye Olde Dragon Books
• Release date: Dec 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9781961129269

Michelle L. Levigne

On the road to publication, Michelle fell into fandom in college and has 40+ stories in various SF and fantasy universes. She has a bunch of useless degrees in theater, English, film/communication, and writing. Even worse, she has over 100 books and novellas with multiple small presses, in science fiction and fantasy, YA, suspense, women's fiction, and sub-genres of romance. Her official launch into publishing came with winning first place in the Writers of the Future contest in 1990. She was a finalist in the EPIC Awards competition multiple times, winning with Lorien in 2006 and The Meruk Episodes, I-V, in 2010, and was a finalist in the Realm Award competition, in conjunction with the Realm Makers convention. Her training includes the Institute for Children’s Literature; proofreading at an advertising agency; and working at a community newspaper. She is a tea snob and freelance edits for a living ([e-mail] for info/rates), but only enough to give her time to write. Her newest crime against the literary world is to be co-managing editor at Mt. Zion Ridge Press and launching the publishing co-op, Ye Olde Dragon Books. Be afraid … be very afraid.  www.Mlevigne.com www.MichelleLevigne.blogspot.com www.YeOldeDragonBooks.com www.MtZionRidgePress.com @MichelleLevigne Look for Michelle's Goodreads groups: Guardians of Neighborlee Voyages of the AFV Defender NEWSLETTER: Want to learn about upcoming books, book launch parties, inside information, and cover reveals? Go to Michelle's website or blog to sign up.

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Publication Date: December 9, 2023

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COCOONED

You need to get back here as soon as possible .

The voice in M’kar’s head sounded familiar, yet at the same time she couldn’t identify it immediately. It would have helped if she knew where here was, in relation to the source of the voice.

Sorry, the voice said almost before that thought became clear in her mind. Anwesta.

Jax? She was suddenly very glad she was alone for the moment