Dragon Bone Ridge

Dragons can be so demanding at times.

Maribelle Kankade dreamed one night, but it’s not your normal dream. This one has a dragon demanding she locate the stone parts that have been cut off his body and turned into useful objects about town. The largest chunk is a mill stone carved from his hip.

What dragon would let someone cut out his hip? One who’d fallen asleep and turned to stone on a solstice day, apparently. Other bits and pieces were carted away as well.

Maribelle feels sorry for Nyle; he's been trapped in the high meadow for fifty years. Until someone can locate and return his missing parts, he’ll remain there, which means he’ll be invading her sleep until she helps him.

That’s if she can believe that the stone ridge in the high meadow is really a trapped dragon. True, it hadn’t been there prior to fifty years ago, and it does look rather like a dragon emerging from the surrounding field.

But really, a dragon talking to her in her dreams.

His request will have to join her currently growing list. Keep Lady Cadris entertained, maintain the account books while helping run her father’s store, and avoid all the matchmaking so many seem intent on arranging for her.

Who said everybody needs a dream?

Someone who didn’t imagine the dream would come in the form of an unhappy red dragon just when Seth, a young man from out of town, is showing interest in her, and the store is showing the kind of profit that means they can open a second store south of town.

There’s what an individual wants, and what an individual can do.

There’s truth and then there’s truth. Will Maribelle do what Nyle wants when she learns the truth? Should she tell Seth about the dragon? Or is that a truth best kept to herself?

Read this second installment of the Solstice Dragon World series because this dream left out one very important fact.