Dragon Star

Dragonish #1

by Stephanie Burke

Left to die in the searing heat of the desert, the nameless female struggles to save her own life. She is a foundling who dared to turn down the son of the leader of her village and found herself cast to the vicious Scabs and their never-ending hunger. But then, something comes to her aid—a large talking lizard with more attitude than brains is there, carrying her off to a strange new world inhabited by the Dragonish.

Future mate for a strange shifter male, she is a desired and treasured female, meant to be submissive for breeding purposes and the fourth in an all-male family quad that just doesn’t make sense to her. When instincts take over and mating fever burns bright, who can resist being the Dragon's Star?

Genres: Shapeshifters, Paranormal, Fantasy, Erotica, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Dragons

59 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 26, 2007

About the author

Stephanie is a multi published multi award-winning wife and mother of two whose unparalleled imagination causes her no end of trouble. From sex shifting shape-shifting dragons to under sea worlds, up to sexually confused elemental fey and homo erotic mysteries, all the way to pastel challenged urban sprites, Stephanie has done it all, and hopes to do more.
Stephanie is co-founder of the charitable organization Write 4 Hope, Co Creator of the Japanese Culture and Anime Convention Mikomicon, Home-school Mom, English Tutor, an Orator on her favorite subject of writing and world building, a sometimes teacher when you feed her enough coffee and donuts, an anime nut, a costumer, and a frequent guest of various sci-fi and writing cons where she can be found leading panel discussions or researching more and varied legends and theories to improve her writing skills.

Stephanie is known for her love of the outrageous, strong female characters, believable worlds, male characters filled with depth, and interracial that make the reader sit up and take notice.

Reviews

[Ash · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took familiar themes/ premises and produced a brand new spin on them. I'm talking bout fated mates, alpha/beta, a quad (yes chile, a quad 🙂🫡), and some of the steamiest 🔞 I've come across yet. I'm reading the sequel IMMEDIATELY to see how this ends. 😎

[Maura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pure erotica FYI. An unnamed girl finds herself abandoned and rescued by a dragon - or a dragon shapeshifter kind of people called dragonish. Turns out the guy/dragon who rescued her is her mate and they are part of a quad (mated family) and she is the only female. It was a bit confusing to understand, but there are two pairs to the quad and each pair is mated. But in order to hatch eggs, the breeding pair (essentially the female and the submissive male of the other pair) have to mate as well - even though they aren't mates, get it? Basically it's one big happy, sex-having family. They share one another. This is only the first story, so it doesn't explore the options much, but it was definitely a unique and original situation. The sex scenes are pretty hot and laden down with mating posessiveness. Still, I only found this to be average. A good story, but not one I couldn't get enough of. I think I was too confused by the situation...I wanted the world to be further explained.

[Laz the Sailor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up as the author was suggested to me for erotic scifi.

This story was short, but complete, with a lead in for follow-on stories. The dragon culture was interesting, though explored so obliquely that much remains to be revealed.

The sex was hot, with a strong M/M and solid M/F scene.

I may grab others from this author, just based on the uniqueness of her ideas.