Urban Dragon

Rosario Hernandez doesn't ask for much. She'd like to sleep on a bed instead of a sidewalk, to know where her next meal is coming from, and maybe, if she's really feeling optimistic, to get a girlfriend. More than anything, though, she wants her best friend Arkay not to murder anyone- because Arkay is a dragon, claws and all. But the world is a dangerous place for a pair of homeless women, even if one has scales and claws. Arkay is doing everything she can to keep Rosa safe, but with every fight, Arkay becomes more ruthless and brutal. And Rosa is losing her grip on her dragon. Urban Dragon: Volume 1 includes the first three stories in the Urban Dragon series: Book 1: Mark of the Dragon Book 2: Shadow and Steel Book 3: Dance with the Devil.

With Rosario, Arkay was unstoppable. Without her, she's a wreck. Her home is in ruins, her friends have betrayed her, and she's the target of a group of professional monster-hunters who think she's literal hellspawn. The only thing keeping her going is the impossible hope that Rosario isn't gone forever. In the shadowy world of monsters, there may still be a way to get her back, if Arkay can survive long enough to find it. There are worse monsters than dragons in the world, and now they have her in their sights. Contains the next chapter of the Urban Dragon series: Book 4: Potnia Theron Book 5: Foret of the Damned Book 6: Aglaeca.

Arkay misses the good old days, when she used to beat up drug dealers and stalkers and rifle around in their pockets for loose change. Times were simpler then. She could sleep at night, confident that she was one of the good guys. Now she's the unwilling figurehead of the Hoarde, and her life is a political nightmare. Her allies are playing mind games. Her subordinates are on the verge of mutiny, impatient with Arkay's eccentricities and Rosario's ideas of mercy. Innocent people are dying by the hundreds, slaughtered in labyrinthine death camps by a ruthless enemy. They all look to Arkay to save them-or to die trying.