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The ruby dragon: The Ruby Dragon is the breath-taking second book in the Earth Magic Chronicles YA fantasy series
A dangerous foe resurfaces. A powerful artifact is snatched. Can an apprentice adept stop a vile plot before another life is lost?
England, 1960’s. Joshua Appleby’s loyalty knows no bounds. Studying earth magic under the tutelage of a mystical blue hare, the earnest fourteen-year-old looks to the future, hoping to move past his terrifying run-in with a vicious dark mage. But after visiting the display of an ancient relic purported to grant immortality, he’s shocked when it’s stolen and fears the worst.
Determined to do the right thing, Joshua swallows his terror and leaps into the hunt for the precious but dangerous treasure. Yet with a supernatural circus, a beautiful fairy, and a friend-turned-nemesis muddying the waters, the resilient young man worries his fledgling abilities may not be up to the task.
Can he prevent the corruption of the natural order without losing all he holds dear?
The Ruby Dragon is the breathtaking second book in the Earth Magic Chronicles YA fantasy series. If you like heroes who grow, charming furry sidekicks, and non-stop adventure, then you’ll love Kim Langley’s captivating page-turner.
Buy The Ruby Dragon to ignite destiny today!
England, 1960’s. Joshua Appleby’s loyalty knows no bounds. Studying earth magic under the tutelage of a mystical blue hare, the earnest fourteen-year-old looks to the future, hoping to move past his terrifying run-in with a vicious dark mage. But after visiting the display of an ancient relic purported to grant immortality, he’s shocked when it’s stolen and fears the worst.
Determined to do the right thing, Joshua swallows his terror and leaps into the hunt for the precious but dangerous treasure. Yet with a supernatural circus, a beautiful fairy, and a friend-turned-nemesis muddying the waters, the resilient young man worries his fledgling abilities may not be up to the task.
Can he prevent the corruption of the natural order without losing all he holds dear?
The Ruby Dragon is the breathtaking second book in the Earth Magic Chronicles YA fantasy series. If you like heroes who grow, charming furry sidekicks, and non-stop adventure, then you’ll love Kim Langley’s captivating page-turner.
Buy The Ruby Dragon to ignite destiny today!
398 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 3, 2024
About the author
Kim Langley
5 books65 followersKim Langley: The Unvarnished Truth
A package arrived from California (a mythical land to a girl from Pittsburgh) when I turned eight. Aunt Viola Buehler had mailed Louis Untermeyer’s The Golden Treasury of Poetry. When not being told to get off the couch and get my nose OUT of that book, I was reading the good stuff over and over, everything from nonsense verses, to ballads, and of course The Highwayman. From The Highwayman I learned that the moon could be “a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas”. The rest was history.
Fast forward 30 plus years, and I am leading poetry circles for mindful conversation. Over and over people entered with their shoulders hunched up around their ears, cowering and fearful that they wouldn’t get it. “I don’t understand poetry. I just came because my friend brought me.” Then 2 hours later they exit wheedling the date of the next gathering from me and asking “When can we do this again!?”
Because I am not entirely clueless, my heart could not help but notice the joy of participants integrating parts of the self, and finding words for thoughts and feeling that they had been unable to express.
Finding myself at a conference on using poetry in ministry, I was sitting with strangers around the lunch table when someone asked-- “What brings you here?” I rattled on about poetry circles and the alchemy that happens there, and she popped the question: “Do you have any poems about grief?” Do I have any poems about grief! One of the lame jokes among poets is that every poem ever written could be lumped under five themes, and one of those is grief. So yes. She turned out to be a representative of Paraclete Press.
That’s when Send My Roots Rain was born.
Kim lives in Ohio with her family of teachers, a librarian and business owner, a software engineer.
When not leading poetry circles through www.WordSPA.net, or chained to the laptop, she’s self employed as a speaker and coach at www.KimLangley.net.
She enjoys a good workout in her huge flower garden, and sneaking treats to Tucker, the doggie who wooed and won her heart.
A package arrived from California (a mythical land to a girl from Pittsburgh) when I turned eight. Aunt Viola Buehler had mailed Louis Untermeyer’s The Golden Treasury of Poetry. When not being told to get off the couch and get my nose OUT of that book, I was reading the good stuff over and over, everything from nonsense verses, to ballads, and of course The Highwayman. From The Highwayman I learned that the moon could be “a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas”. The rest was history.
Fast forward 30 plus years, and I am leading poetry circles for mindful conversation. Over and over people entered with their shoulders hunched up around their ears, cowering and fearful that they wouldn’t get it. “I don’t understand poetry. I just came because my friend brought me.” Then 2 hours later they exit wheedling the date of the next gathering from me and asking “When can we do this again!?”
Because I am not entirely clueless, my heart could not help but notice the joy of participants integrating parts of the self, and finding words for thoughts and feeling that they had been unable to express.
Finding myself at a conference on using poetry in ministry, I was sitting with strangers around the lunch table when someone asked-- “What brings you here?” I rattled on about poetry circles and the alchemy that happens there, and she popped the question: “Do you have any poems about grief?” Do I have any poems about grief! One of the lame jokes among poets is that every poem ever written could be lumped under five themes, and one of those is grief. So yes. She turned out to be a representative of Paraclete Press.
That’s when Send My Roots Rain was born.
Kim lives in Ohio with her family of teachers, a librarian and business owner, a software engineer.
When not leading poetry circles through www.WordSPA.net, or chained to the laptop, she’s self employed as a speaker and coach at www.KimLangley.net.
She enjoys a good workout in her huge flower garden, and sneaking treats to Tucker, the doggie who wooed and won her heart.
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