Dragon's Ridge

Dragon’s Ridge has been honored as a Finalist in the Historical Fantasy category of the American Fiction Award!

Dragon’s Ridge is set in the medieval Duchy of Gascony. After the fall of Rome, wars and invasions drove the people to seek safety by the Pyrénéan foothills. Generations prospered until a new enemy descended from the mountains. The marauders were a terror for the commoners, an affront to the noblemen and an scourge to the clergy. Into the battlefront of this conflict strays an unassuming soul, when she dares to deny a dragon its kill.

An orphanage headmistress is snatched saving a child from a dragon, and the world believes her dead and eaten. For centuries, Gascony’s top predators have treated humankind as easy prey.

But Isodore’s misery has only begun. On a lonely ledge high in the Pyrénées, where even the famed dragonslayers won’t go, she comes to terms with the nature of dragons, her fate in her captor’s hands, and her own dark secret. A child survivor of a dragon’s wrath, she has relied on her wits to stay alive. But it’s compassion that gives that life meaning, stirring a warrior’s idealism, breaching class divisions, and sustaining love for an outcast.  On Dragon’s Ridge, Isodore’s struggle brings compassion and survival into conflict. She placates her captor to plot her escape, unaware that the plan will cost her a part of herself she can never get back.

Dragon’s Ridge will test the fortitude, resourcefulness and humanity of the humble headmistress. It will forever change her, the lives she touches, and the world she lives in.