I’m happy to be welcoming Maria Grace
back to the blog. As you may know, Maria has written some stories weaving
Dragons in with Austen’s stories, and she has two books which cover Persuasion,
The Dragons of Kellynch and Kellynch: Dragon Persuasion.
The story picks up Anne and Wentworth’s stories from five years before the
start of Jane Austen’s Persuasion and covers the entire Persuasion novel. The
second of the two books release earlier this month and to celebrate Maria has
been having a blog tour. She’s stopped by here for a guest post and giveaway. Let’s
take a look at the blurbs for both books and then hand over to Maria Grace.
Book Descriptions
In
order to secure her future, a young lady must marry well.
One
would think Anne Elliot, a baronet’s daughter, would find the marriage mart far
easier to navigate than a more ordinary woman. One would be wrong.
After
refusing a poor, but otherwise perfect sailor, on the advice of her friend Lady
Russell, Anne finds an unhappy choice before her: marry deathly dull Charles
Musgrove or hope against hope that another suitable proposal might come her way
before she becomes a spinster on the shelf.
Anne’s
disgracefully independent choice to refuse Charles’ offer turns her world
entirely arsey-varsey and not in the expected
turned upside down sort of way. She begins to see things … hear things …
things like dragons.
And
once one sees dragons, one talks to them. And when one talks to them, nothing
is ever the same again.
Must
a young lady marry well if she hears dragons?
https://books2read.com/DragonsofKellynch
Keeping
a hibernating dragon should have been a simple thing.
Should
have been, but it was not. Apparently, nothing involving dragons was ever
simple, at least not for Anne Elliot, junior Keeper to dragon Kellynch.
With
the estate in debt, Anne’s father in denial, and the dragon’s treasure missing,
Kellynch’s awakening was shaping up to be nothing short of catastrophe. Not to
mention there was the pesky matter of her own broken heart and resentment
against the old friend who had caused it.
Captain
Frederick Wentworth had spent his life making something of himself in the Navy.
With the war that kept him employed at
an end and a small fortune in prize money, he found himself beached and at
loose ends. What was he to do with himself now—take a wife like Laconia, his
dragon Friend, insisted? Not when none compared to the woman who had broken his
heart.
Working
as an agent of the Blue Order, managing dragon matters across England, seemed a
much better alternative. At least until investigating one such matter sent him
directly in the path of Anne Elliot, the woman who had ruined him for all
others.
Now
a royal dragon rages, a sleeping dragon lurks, and too many treasures have gone
missing. Can Anne and Wentworth lay aside resentment, pride, and heartbreak to
prevent Kellynch’s awakening from ending in bloodshed—or worse?
Jane
Austen meets Pern in a fantastical regency romp bound to delight readers of
Jane Austen and Anne McCaffrey alike.
https://books2read.com/KellynchDragonPersuasion
