Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy.

Word Count: 51471

Sometimes you fight hardest against what you need most.

When Claire and her father move to a new house, she refuses to believe the rumours about Roy, the boy next door. It doesn't take her long to realise she should have listened. She's thrown into a world where only the strong survive, discovering a secret Roy has spent his life fighting against. She's determined to not only survive, but find her place in the dangerous world of dragons, Mages and Knights.

***This book is set after Dragon Blood 5: Mage. It tells the story of one of the secondary characters from the Dragon Blood series.***

This story was written by an Australian author using Australian spelling.