Solstice Dragon World Series by L. Darby Gibbs

One Answer. One Question. One Woman. One Dragon. Shennon Trelor, researcher for the Arbitrator of Shlognar, earns a coveted spot on the negotiation team selected to bring a close to a war between two kingdoms. She worked hard to earn the spot, and a snow storm, a dragon king and the labyrinthine archives of High Cadore are not going to interfere with her doing her job. Shennon arrives late to the negotiation and is mistaken for a Question Girl and taken before the Dragon King... moreOne Answer. One Question. One Woman. One Dragon. Shennon Trelor, researcher for the Arbitrator of Shlognar, earns a coveted spot on the negotiation team selected to bring a close to a war between two kingdoms. She worked hard to earn the spot, and a snow storm, a dragon king and the labyrinthine archives of High Cadore are not going to interfere with her doing her job. Shennon arrives late to the negotiation and is mistaken for a Question Girl and taken before the Dragon King. Frustrated by the further delay, she demands she be allowed to do her work, but the Dragon King won’t stop calling her in for questioning. The Dragon King needs an answer. His administrator brings a different teenage girl each day to face the question, until the day a woman from a negotiation team is accidentally brought to him. The answer to the question will free him from a curse, but after five hundred years, he doesn’t remember what question he is supposed to ask nor what will happen once he gets his answer. Soon Shennon is as intrigued by his need for a specific answer as she is in furnishing the negotiation team with the facts that will end the two hundred year war. The shifting moods of the Dragon King and her own unexpected desire to help him pull her into a 500-year-old curse and land her in royal intrigues far beyond her expectations. Will she find the answer to his forgotten question? Will the answer save the king or kill him? less

Dragons can be so demanding at times, even those stuck in stone.Nyle came to Maribelle in a dream demanding she help him reclaim his missing dragon pieces.She has more than enough keeping her busy, except for a man in her life. Adding searching for stone dragon parts seems hardly conducive to improving her love life.Nyle has waited years for someone to fall asleep near him on a solstice day and agree to make him flesh and blood again. He’s not going to allow a man to interfere with his plans... moreDragons can be so demanding at times, even those stuck in stone.Nyle came to Maribelle in a dream demanding she help him reclaim his missing dragon pieces.She has more than enough keeping her busy, except for a man in her life. Adding searching for stone dragon parts seems hardly conducive to improving her love life.Nyle has waited years for someone to fall asleep near him on a solstice day and agree to make him flesh and blood again. He’s not going to allow a man to interfere with his plans.If she can’t locate all the missing pieces, Nyle is doomed to be stone, and she’s going to be stuck with a dragon wandering around in her dreams. A woman needs privacy when she’s asleep.Maribelle has her own goals to achieve, but Nyle’s needs keep getting tangled in her own.When Seth enters her life, helping a dragon becomes a frustrating endeavor that begins to reveal buried fractures in her own family.Will she have time to help Nyle before he’s permanently fractured as well? Does she even want to?Buy this standalone novel in the Solstice Dragon World because dreams are tricky and dragons trickier. less

If you listen very closely, keep track of every nuance of his word choice, bargaining with a dragon is no big deal. Keep in mind solstice dragons live a very long time, and they don’t mind hanging on to an open-ended bargain until they really need to call it in. Finding herself in the company of dragons should have been eased by the knowledge that the Don’t Eat Humans Clause had been adhered to for more than 1000 years... moreIf you listen very closely, keep track of every nuance of his word choice, bargaining with a dragon is no big deal. Keep in mind solstice dragons live a very long time, and they don’t mind hanging on to an open-ended bargain until they really need to call it in. Finding herself in the company of dragons should have been eased by the knowledge that the Don’t Eat Humans Clause had been adhered to for more than 1000 years. When Dira agrees to a bargain with Brundar, a dragon with indifferent interest in her plans to make it through the winter alone on the frozen slopes of the Cadore Mountains, she learns too late one should always have someone evaluate the nuances of the word choice before agreeing to a binding contract with a dragon. Hadn’t he said he just wanted her help keeping the young dragon he was mentoring in line in trade for food and shelter for the winter? But she can’t quite recall the exact phrasing though he assures her increasing her skills in survival was a deliberate focus in the negotiations. What negotiations? It was all of a two-minute discussion! Convincing him that as a dragon he was hardly equipped to provide her training in anything relating to human survival seemed brilliant, until he agreed without argument. Now she’s saddled with an exasperating warrior bent on educating her, a war she hadn’t bargained for, and far too many dragons with designs on her future. Read this third book in the Solstice Dragon World now. less