Petrol Queen

by Marshall Payne

Book One in The Battle for Amel-Gar seriesThe kingdom of Amel-Gar is at war. And Amel-Gar's rulers seem to have forgotten that unpopular wars often spawn revolutions.Aeons ago dragons reigned in Amel-Gar. Today, Ziane Kont controls the precious J-fuel necessary for the war effort, secretly extracted and synthesized from the underground bones and magic of J-mu and her dragon weyr, the greatest of their kind. Now the spirit of J-mu lives on inside Ziane, forcing her to morph into dragon form, a curse soon to be passed down to her daughter.Nineteen-year-old Lana Kont is in love with Dallon Jaser, her freshman history professor. But when her mother orders his execution, mother and daughter are pitted against one another as they bend the pollution-based sky-haints to assume dragon form and wage war in the sky.Corona is a half-haint, an incorporeal being in constant danger of slipping off this mortal coil. When she becomes involved with the revolutionary group, the Agony Underground, she is caught between Lana and Ziane in their struggle for supremacy―a struggle that could destroy Amel-Gar itself.

334 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 28, 2012

About the author

Marshall Payne lives in San Antonio, Texas with novelist Jaime Lee Moyer and their two cats. He is a writer of science fiction and fantasy and has written over 100 stories and sold to 43 markets such as Aeon, Talebones and Brutarian. Learn more about him at marshallpayne.com.

Marshall's novel, PETROL QUEEN, is available on Amazon, as is his novel JIMMY-DON AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY ORDEAL. Here are the links to both:

http://www.amazon.com/Petrol-Queen-Ba...

http://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Don-Texas...