Dragonfire

by Charles S. Jackson

**LATEST UPDATE – CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, I AM STILL ALIVE AND WRITING WHEN I CAN. ALTHOUGH MY FACEBOOK PAGE IS NO MORE, FOR THE TIME BEING I CAN BE FOUND AT UNTIL A MORE PERMANENT WEBSITE CAN BE ESTABLISHED** (go to the above page for the latest news)Nev Anderson and her widowed father didn’t have much, but they got by well enough. With most of her time taken up by school study, getting Dad ready for work, and working her own part-time job to help make ends meet, there wasn’t a lot of free time left for a teen with good grades who ‘didn’t get out much’. What little spare time she did have was spent at martial arts training, reading fantasy novels, or hanging out with her best friend, Persephone, watching Game of Thrones.Percy sometimes joked that Nev should get herself a boyfriend (Nev was pretty sure she was joking, and she’d been acting weird lately anyway), but there didn’t seem to be time to even think about that, and Nev would be the first to admit that even at seventeen, she didn’t know the first thing about that kind of silliness anyway.Nev didn’t complain she was happy enough, most of the time, and tough as things sometimes were, she knew there were plenty of other people that had it much worse. There were times though when she did wish for a little more excitement… something different to break up the monotony of day-to-day life in a small country town…Something her concept of ‘something different’ didn’t include however was being unexpectedly dragged through a magical portal to another world, be denounced as a witch and get caught up in a medieval war; yet that’s exactly what happens one afternoon after just one out-of-character decision to cut classes and take off on some misguided ‘nature ride’ with Percy.On the run and armed with a 700-year-old sword, a crystal necklace with strange magical powers and an overload of 21st century attitude, Nev’s going to need every ounce of her strength, her smarts and her martial arts training to escape an ageless evil entity, protect a princess, save a kingdom and maybe… just maybe… sort out that whole ‘boyfriend’ thing into the bargain.All things considered, Nev Anderson had had better birthdays…

494 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2018

About the author

Charles Jackson lives with his wife and daughter in Sydney, Australia.

He works full time to help pay the bills and spends his spare time writing speculative fiction.

Beginning his lifelong love of writing at the age of twelve with the completion of his first attempt at a full-length novel, he has been an avid writer ever since.

His interests include reading, music, movies and online gaming, and has had many different and varied experiences in life ranging from performance in amateur stage productions to service as a private in the Australian Army Reserve and, more recently, the most strenuous and rewarding experience of all: parenthood.

Reviews

[Antony Woiod · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good read I eagerly await the subsequent follow ups