Dragons Within: Guarding Her Own Anthology by Balance of Seven Press
“I am dragon. I am free. You are mine to protect.”
A truth-seeker becomes imbued with the power to tip the scales of justice. A headstrong privateer tempers her courage in the heart of a violent storm. A pair of mittens leads to a family history rich with dragons. Sparks fly when a chronically single pilot finally meets her match.
Enter the world of Dragons Within: a place where woman and dragon are one and the same: reigning strong, fierce, and free. Forging bonds with the world of mankind, these unconquerable beings discover a love for the vulnerable, the fragile, the broken.
A pregnant goddess seeks refuge for her children during war. A telepathic soldier finds the courage to claim her humanity. A dragon in human form uses her gifts to protect abuse victims in need. A girl chases a soldier through a desert wasteland to find her missing brother.
Featuring twelve new and emerging speculative fiction writers, this power-driven book delves deep into the journey from treasure hunter to guardian, mercenary to savior, fire-breather to martyr. Transforming rage into righteousness, the women of Dragons Within claim their people, pledging their lives to…
guard their own.
- Was a 2020 Best American Book Awards Finalist
- Placed 2nd in the 2021 Feathered Quill Awards
- Was a #1 Amazon Bestseller in the LGBTQ+ Fiction Anthologies Category during Release Week (Not all stories are LGBTQ+)
Poseidon’s Pearl: Book 1 of the Poseidon’s Object Series
“I could empathize with his mother. There was so much to return to as a human living above water. But down here…down here, there was River. Right now, I couldn’t tell which I would rather live without; sunlight or River.”
Happiness is overrated. Sienna thinks relationships are about companionship and compromise, and she has that with her high school sweetheart. But when she discovers that creatures of the myths are real, nothing will be the same. She can’t get back on land unless she trusts a strange, sexy merman prince named River to keep his promise. And yet, although she is homesick for her life above water, she realizes that when she is with River, she’s… happy.
The world’s weight seems to be on Prince River’s shoulders, and it’s not the miles of water above him. He’s in a dilemma where he must choose between love, family, and responsibility. If the truth comes out, many lives are at risk. Having always been the type of person to put others before himself, River starts being selfish for the first time in his life. Unfortunately, the consequences for such choices include the death of those he holds most dear, never mind his own life.
Can a relationship that’s illegal from the start survive against all odds?
Romance Author Hayley Green 