In MAIDEN FLIGHT, Belora's world is about to change from a simple life to a world of knights and flying dragons, kings, and princes.

She is hunting to feed herself and her mother and at the moment she makes her kill a dragon swoops down and carries it away. Indignantly she confronts the dragon demanding her meal back. The dragon is completely intrigued by the fearless female warrior, for few women can hear a dragon speak as this one can so instead of relinquishing the meal he picks her up and carries her to meet his knight, Gareth.

Gareth cannot believe what Kelvan is bringing him. He is smitten by the beauty and Kelvan gladly leaves them to get "acquainted." He, Kelvan and others are in the area to set up a new Lair, a war against the Skithdron and their evil king is imminent.

The knight and his dragon are just as surprised that Belora's mother is the Adora that Kelvan's own mother Lady Kelzy had spoken of so often. They take the two women to the new Lair so Lady Kelzy can once again see her "daughter" and for Belora to meet up with the other surprise that is about to happen. Kelvan has waited a long time for Gareth to find a mate so he can take his Rohtina as mate and her Knight Lars will become Belora's second husband.

Belora not understanding this feels almost the same attraction toward Lars that she did for Gareth. How could she fall in love with two different men? She shouldn't be attracted to Lars when she was pledging her life to Gareth, but as the dragons would say the "Mother of All knows what she is doing."

This introduction to Bianca D'Arc's dragon knight world is a sensual one with brave handsome knights and colorful dragons who are filled with honor. As with all of her books the sex is explicit but the storyline woven around it is just captivating. I will say that I wish this had not been a short story, because it would have given the author a chance to develop the characters more as she does in the later books. This story can also be found in the "Ladies of the Lair" book. It includes the second installment of the series "Border Lair" which is the story of Belora's mother Adora.