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Fiction, Dragons, Paranomal Romance, Science Fiction


The Author

Shana Abe was born in Texas. She spent much of her childhood living in Colorado, with a brief stint in Mexico as a foreign exchange student, and, at age seventeen, lived in Japan as a model. Throughout her childhood, Abe wrote, completing what she calls “The Silliest Romance Novel Ever” during her free time during modeling shoots. Her writing focused on romance, as those were the types of books that she most enjoyed reading. She later attended college in Los Angeles, graduating with a degree in drama.

Her second novel, also a contemporary romance, took third place in a writing contest. She sent the book to several prospective agents, many of which responded with questions similar to “Nice voice — but what line are you writing for?” Unwilling to try to fit her writing into some of the rules that governed contemporary romances, Abe chose to concentrate on historical romances. For her first attempt at a historical romance, the newlywed Abe chose to tell the story of her own romance with her husband, set in medieval times. The manuscript was purchased by Bantam Books and published as A Rose in Winter.

Many of Abe’s subsequent novels have also been set in the medieval time period. Abe chose the time period because of its “great sense of dichotomy…. It inspires thoughts of grandeur, of courtly grace and chivalrous knights — but at the same time there’s a gritty, raw aspect to the period that just cannot be denied.”

Abe has received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and has been nominated six times for Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards, winning twice

The Books

For centuries they’ve lived in secret among northern England’s green and misted hills. Creatures of extraordinary beauty, power, and sensuality, they possess the ability to shape-shift from human to dragon and back again.

Now their secret–and their survival–is threatened by a temptation that will break every boundary…. Dubbed the Smoke Thief, a daring jewel thief is confounding the London police. His wealthy victims claim the master burglar can walk through walls and vanish into thin air. But Christoff, the charismatic Marquess of Langford, knows the truth: the thief is no ordinary human but a “runner” who’s fled Darkfrith without permission. As Alpha leader of the dra’kon, it’s Kit’s duty to capture the fugitive before the secrets of the tribe are revealed to mortals. But not even Kit suspects that the Smoke Thief could be a woman. Clarissa Rue Hawthorne knew her dangerous exploits would attract the attention of the dra’kon. But she didn’t expect Christoff himself to come to London, dangling the tribe’s most valuable jewel – the Langford Diamond – as bait. For as long as she could remember, Rue had lived the life of a halfling – half dra’kon, half mortal – and an outcast in both worlds. She’d always loved the handsome and willful Kit from the only place it was safe: from afar. But now she was no longer the shy, timid girl she’d once been. She was the first woman capable of making the Turn in four generations. So why did she still feel the same dizzying sense of vulnerability whenever he was near? From the moment he saw her, Kit knew that the alluring and powerful beauty was every bit his Alpha equal and destined to be his bride. And by the harsh laws of the dra’kon, Rue knew that she was the property of the marquess. But they will risk banishment and worse for a chance at something greater. For now Rue is his prisoner, the diamond has disappeared, and she’s made the kind of dangerous proposition a man like Kit cannot resist….

In this bewitching novel, Shana Abe transports us into a world of exhilarating romance and magic.

The books in suggested reading order:
The Smoke Thief
The Dream Thief
Queen of Dragons
The Treasure Keeper
The Time Weaver

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