dark fantasy series

**This series contains genre-typical violence, domestic violence, slavery, and adult and sexual situations

Shiobe wandered the shadowy streets of Iova searching for her dreamed-of dawn--to become a legendary swordswoman. She meets Sikode, and adventure and excitement fall into her lap. Now she has rivals, enemies, and goes on a quest to master a dragon. What more could a freelance fighter and translator want?
Maybe a few less brushes with death.

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Dawn of Shiobe
Shadows over Tindrel
The Glass Volcano

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previously published under Shiobe Rising

Chapter 28 Excerpt

Shadows fill Shiobe's life. She wanders the streets of Iova alone, yearning for a legendary swordswoman's life, but doing more translating of old manuscripts than battling enemies and mysterious creatures.
Enter the spy. Shiobe knows trusting Sikode is ludicrous, but he offers her the adventure and companionship she desires. She snatches the opportunity, but conjurers, kidnappers, underground slave rings and twilight monsters might end her before the rosy fingers of her new dawn rise.

Dawn of Shiobe

previously published under Trouble in Tindrel

Chapter 20 Excerpt

Accepting her new dawn with Sikode brings the adventure Shiobe craves. A map she translates for King Shiel of Illena hints at the reality of mythic dragons and begins the quest to achieve Sikode's lifelong dream of dragon mastery.
But not all goes as planned. Assassins target Shiel's cousin, and Shiobe and Sikode discover the dead Merren despot's bloodmages are not as vanquished as the Merren and Illenan crowns assume. Defeating such dire enemies takes precedence, but another worry grips them; Kitta and Rien also travel to the Glass Volcano in search of the dragon.

Shadows over Tindrel

Chapter 10 Excerpt

Neither assassin nor bloodmage prevented Shiobe and Sikode from reaching the Glass Volcano, home to Kykini Cede, Flame Dragon of Kassak. With local climber Ceten as their guide, they enter the volcano in search of the Kandari, the dragon's controlling artifact.
They are not alone within the dark interior. Rivals from Solin and Oritan hound their steps, and enemy bloodmages have tracked Shiobe to the lair, intent on retrieving their sylf-blessed stone she accidentally stole.
Knowledge lights the way to the Flame Dragon, but the unexpected has a nasty way of blocking the path.

The Glass Volcano

A Wellspring Dragon's Short Story

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Beneath the Javone palace, Sikode enters the vile lair of crown-sanctioned bloodmages.