The Redundant Dragons

by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Overview

Queen Verity is queen only because her mother has said she has to be. She agrees because, after all, somebody has to liberate the dragons who have long toiled in the boiler room bowels of the city. Now that they are free, nobody has any idea what to do with them or how to feed them.

Everyone is used to dragons being docile cogs in the machinery of industry, tamed into tranquility by food treated with a hypnotic tranquilizer, now largely destroyed, leaving a lot of huge hungry beasts roving the capital city of Queenston. Verity needs to act fast, before the dragons remember what dragons once did to feed themselves.

The crown has scarcely mussed her hair before her political enemies have her shanghaied and sold to an outward bound vessel, leaving the kingdom to the random mercies of her erstwhile assistant, Malady Hyde.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781619503434
Publisher:	Gypsy Shadow Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/27/2018
Series:	Songs of the Seashell Archives , #6
Pages:	270
Sales rank:	956,490
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

Editorial Reviews

Clever, amusing, and inventive. Don’t read it last thing before bed because you won’t be able to stop. A considerable gallery of well-drawn characters. Verity is a splendid creation and very sound on dragons. And there are Ghost-Cats. What else could we want?’

Kerry Greenwood

Author of the Phryne Fisher detective novels (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries TV series) and The Spotted Dog in the Catherine Chapmam series

The Redundant Dragons is a book chock full of quirky characters, effervescent dialogue and wicked humor. The story rockets from one character to another without a misstep. But underlying the fun there’s a serious theme reflecting the best and worst in humanity (and dragonity) and a reminder of how easy it is to find oneself on the wrong side. Although this is the second in a series, I had no trouble following the plot. Now I MUST find the first, which I expect to enjoy just as much.

Sharan Newman

Author of the Guinevere series and the Catherine LeVenseur Mystery series

Scarborough’s Redundant Dragons is a wicked swirl of humor, fantasy and astute social commentary that moves along so fast you almost don’t notice how deep it goes.

Joyce Thompson

Author of Bones, Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu, and the novelization of Harry and the Hendersons

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough does it again with another fantastic light-hearted fantasy where dragons aren’t the villains, but likable heroes.

Pamela K. Kinney

Author of How the Vortex Changed my Life, Haunted Richmond and Haunted Virginia

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough’s new installment of the Songs from the Seashell Archives series slides through fantasy, literature, sci-fiction, and song as easily as one of her time-traveling characters slips through the ages. A reluctant queen, a pirate’s curse, and a thunder of delinquent dragons are only the beginning in this fanciful tale. Oh, and ghost cats. We mustn’t forget the ghost cats!

Mollie Hunt

Author of The Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mystery Series

Dragons, a bard, and witches, Oh yes! I made some new friends, and greeted some old ones. I even sang along with the bard. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough grabbed my attention with a Song of Sorcery and has kept it ever since.

Elisa Ballou

I really couldn't put the book down. I had to know what was going to happen to the reluctant queen and her fanciful friends next!

J. M. Jennings aka Billie Maverick

Author of The Drenching

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