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AllisterNelson

AllisterNelson's Books(8)

The Dragon King's Bride

The Dragon King's Bride

Adventure
3.8
I clean the Dragon King' bones each night, scrubbing the gristle from the wet whiteness, a maiden trapped in a castle of magick.  The Dragon King says he wants to see the ivory beneath the lamb meat, that it reminds Ethan Edgecromb, the Worm of Wedgewood, of flickering stars.  I crack the small bones open to let marrow drip onto the floor when I am bored.  My hands rub raw from the work, and blood trickles from my palms onto the flagstones.  Ethan licks the redness clean and laps it from my hands, saliva clotting the flow.  ___ Ethan Edgecromb was once King of Wedgewood, but two hundred years ago, a witch's curse turned him into a dragon. Now, his hunger is immense, for gold and livestock - and for a princess to be his bride. Jackie Duventhal is sacrificed to the Worm of Wedgewood at the tender age of eight in order to stop Ethan from plundering villages of their cattle, sheep, and pigs. Every day, the Dragon King's lust for gold grows, and Wedgewood grows poorer and poorer. Strapped to Stonehenge, with no food or water, little Princess Jackie is saved by Ethan the Dragon, raised as a witch in his gleaming gemstone castle - and when she reaches the age of nineteen, she finds herself finding in love with her beautiful, enticing Dragon King. But when an ancient curse turns Wedgewood's land to rot, Ethan and Jackie must enter the realm of the Welsh gods in order to retrieve the Apples of Avalon, seat Jackie in place of her cruel father as Queen of Wedgewood, and save Ethan from a curse whose time is running out.
Prometheion: I'm Dating Hermes!

Prometheion: I'm Dating Hermes!

Romance
5.0
He tipped his baseball cap. The stranger's grin revealed bits of crumbs. "And you are...?" I noticed the checkered scarf around his neck. "Hermes." "The brand?" "The man." He sent dancing fingers through the air in a snazzy salute. "G'morning, sweetheart. Loved the sandwich." "Apparently," I mumbled. "So, how did you get in? The doors are locked, and I didn't hear any breaking glass." I looked him up and down. "Get lost on the way to a toga party?" Maybe he was a crazy frat bro. "My life's a party - I bring it with me, or steal Dionysus' thunder." He sipped from a chipped coffee mug, then ah'ed appreciatively. "By Jove's hairy derriere, what a drink. Wine pales in comparison. To the gods of old, and young days long since gone." He wandered into my dining room. "We don't love them til they're gone." My eyes convulsed. "Sorry, but who did you say you were?" I looked at his hands. They were tapered like the fingers of an artist who smuggled on the side. His eyes bespoke whimsy. Looking at this stranger was, in fact, like taking the first, dangerous bite of a melty grilled cheese. "Hermes: the man, not the scarf," ___ My George Foreman grilled cheese was so unholily good, it summoned the Greek God Hermes! Now, I'm on an epic quest to save my father Prometheus from the clutches of Zeus, and restore Hestia's temple flame to Olympus with the fabled Prometheion flower my beloved father Prometheus spent his life hiding. But with the Titans plotting, Cronus rising, and Zeus as dastardly and cunning as ever, all enemies to Hermes and I, can the sexy Messenger God and I make it through, or will I become the ultimate Human Sacrifice?