Dragon's Fall - The Dragon's Quest

by David Lee Summers

The Dragon’s Quest is set in Britain at the fall of the Roman age. The story ties the Dragon’s Fall series to the Arthurian legends to create a vivid new twist with a paranormal edge.

Aonghas Deas-Mhumhan — called Desmond — is a dragon lord in the service of King Ambrosius. He longs for the king’s daughter, the beautiful Guinevere. However, her heart belongs to the king’s young ally, L’ancelot.

When Desmond and his friend Arthur are sent to battle Saxon invaders, Desmond is mortally wounded. He is saved by Wolf, a vampire who seeks the Holy Grail in hopes that it might bring salvation to their kind. Desmond knows he and Wolf cannot find the Grail alone. He returns to court where he finds that Guinevere is pledged to Arthur but still longs for L’ancelot. Now king, Arthur is anxious to remove L’ancelot from court for a time, so he agrees to Desmond’s request for aid in the search for the Grail cup.

Though Desmond, L’ancelot and Wolf find the Grail, they discover that an ancient being of great power defends it. Wolf is killed and Desmond realizes that they have not found the salvation they sought. His quest for salvation – and for love – will continue elsewhere.

Dragon’s Fall is a five-novella series based on the novel, Vampires of the Scarlet Order. Together these paranormal romances will create a complete story that begins in ancient Greece and culminates in 15th century Transylvania. The first book in the series, Bondage, was published by Sinful Moments Press in 2010.

70 pages, ebook

First published February 10, 2011

About the author

David Lee Summers is an author, editor and astronomer living somewhere between the western and final frontiers. He is the author of eleven novels including The Solar Sea, Owl Dance, and The Astronomer's Crypt. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in such magazines as Realms of Fantasy, Cemetery Dance, The Martian Wave, Star*Line and The Santa Clara Review. He has edited the science fiction and fantasy magazine, Tales of the Talisman and the Full-Throttle Space Tales Anthologies Space Pirates and Space Horrors. Over the years, David has also worked at numerous observatories in the U.S. including Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Reviews

[Emily Guido · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review of “The Dragon’s Quest: Dragon’s Fall Series” by David Lee Summers

This novel is set at the time of Roman domination in Briton, Arthurian Legend and the spread of Christianity.

Aonghas (aka Desmond) is a warrior who is in love with Guinevere who is the daughter of the King. They share a good and pure innocent love. However, being a skillful warrior, Desmond is assigned to go into battle with a young Arthur. Coincidentally, Arthur is “secretly married” to his half-sister Morgana.

During one of the battles, Desmond is dealt a death blow from an arrow.

Wolf, a vampire who can turn into a wolf, comes out of his cave at night to feed on the villagers but not to kill. Wolf comes to the village after the battle to feed.

He sees Desmond close to death and starts to feed. Desmond has nothing but his own teeth to deflect Wolf. Once this is done, Desmond is turned.

Wolf, a vampire with a heart, and Desmond start a long relationship of teacher and pupil.

During this time Wolf and Desmond hear of the cup of Jesus and how it can heal along with a scroll Jesus penned. They believe if they drink from the cup and read the scroll, they will be healed of their affliction.

However, in the meantime, everyone Desmond has known has aged and gotten along in life. His love, Guinevere is in a loveless marriage to Arthur but infatuated with L’Ancelot but not in love.

Wolf and Desmond go on quest to find the cup and scroll which might give them their humanity back. Will they be able to complete their quest? Will their search lead them to more uncertainties?

MY THOUGHTS

From the first pages of the novel, I was struck by the historical references which were true and amazed how Desmond’s story was wove through the fabric of time and space.

“The Dragon’s Quest: Dragon’s Fall Series” was wonderful and masterly written and the voice was perfect.

Desmond’s story was relate-able as I could imagine this story being told right along with the stories of the “Knights of the Round Table” in Camelot. Even though it is a legend, I still have a hard time separating it from reality since the historical facts were written in so well. Also little details were so real even down to the flea bites Desmond gets from sleeping under animal skins to avoid the sun.

Mr. Summers has a knack of making all the scenes of “The Dragon’s Quest: Dragon’s Fall Series” seem seamless and flowed with action and adventure.

I was seeing so much through Desmond’s eyes that I was cheering and tearing up at the same time.

I would have to say this novel is an Adult read.

However, I loved each and every word of the novel and have my appetite ready to read more of Mr. Summers novels in the series.

I can give this wonderful novel, “The Dragon’s Quest: Dragon’s Fall Series” by David Lee Summer no less than a five star review. Brilliant novel!