My name is Sophie Whynot. Iโm thirty-two years old, and the
last one of my immediate friends group thatโs still single. And recently, I ran away from home.
I canโt lieโit was much easier when I was seven. Then I just
got pissed at my mom, threw my favorite stuffed animals in a bag, and hid out at my auntโs
house until Mom came to collect me. Running away as an adult is much more involved. First I
had a nervous breakdown at my best friendโs baby shower. That led to a lot of people
unfriending me on social media, but whatever. Then I had to quit my job, break the lease on
my apartment, and sell all my stuff. Now Iโm at my Granโs house in Summerland, Tennessee,
starting over.
Itโs totally freeing being back at square one. No one in
Summerland knows me. I can be anyone I want to be. Right now, I want to get my sex toy
review blog off the ground. Itโs more than just the top ten best vibrators (the research was
pretty fun, except for that cheap one that short-circuited, but youโll have to check out my blog
for the details.). I hope to empower single women to realize they can have the life they want
right now. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Oh, thatโs good. Thatโs my new tagline.)
But thatโs not the only thing thatโs been amazing about
Summerland. Iโm getting to spend time with my Gran. The woman astounds me. She is
ageless, tireless, and wittier than me on my best day. Sheโs also an enchantress. When I was a
kid, and running away from home was easy, my mom made sure to shield me from Granโs
magic, like it was a bad thing.
That plan totally backfired. It only made me more curious.
Granโs teaching me everything she knows, but so far her
hardest lesson has been patience. Sheโs teaching me to read tarot and trust my intuition.
Right now, my intuition is completely distracted by Tyson
Drake. And bewildered that Gran calls him โlizard breathโ right to his face. Her very first
lesson is to harm none.
Lizard breath
carries a certain level of malice.
Tyson doesnโt seem fazed.
And I canโt lie, Iโm intrigued. Heโs tall, muscular, broad-
shouldered, with dark hair that brushes his shoulders and tawny skin. He checks every single
one of my boxes. And since Granโs spat with him over a jewelry box at a yard saleโsince when
do guys who look like that go to yard sales? Itโs made me rethink my entire dating strategyโI
havenโt been able to stop thinking about him.
Now, here he is, standing over my table in Summerlandโs
only coffee shop, with a smug grin on his face and a look in those pale green eyes that says
nothing but trouble.
I canโt wait to dive in.
Turns out, Granโs promised me to a man she refers to as
Lizard Breath, and Iโm literally the last person in Summerland to know.
Heโs a dragon, trapped in his human form by Granโs botched
love spell for fifty years, and his only hope of shifting into his true form is if I become his mate
at the Beltane Festival.
Which happens to be in less than a week.
No pressure or anything.
I already know this dragon is hot. I canโt wait to see how high
he can fly.
Smoky Mountain Dragons Book 1
My grandmother promised me to a hot, cursed dragon who happens to be her mortal enemy.
Why does she want me to spend the rest of my life with a man she calls 'lizard breath'? She's
an enchantress and she cast a love spell over Tyson Drake fifty years ago. It failed pretty
spectacularly, and he's been trapped in his human form ever since. But she's convinced I can
change things. That the magic she's been teaching me about is enough to make the spell
come true. Now Tyson's willing to give my gran's magic one more try and take a chance on
me. I can't stop thinking about him, but will becoming Tyson's mate be enough to make him
finally shift into his dragon form, or will my magic be the death of him?
Romance Paranormal [Self Published, On Sale:
April 20, 2019, e-Book, / ]
Kristen Strassel is far cooler than sheโll make herself sound in this bio. The prolific author of
many paranormal and contemporary books, she enjoys spending time with the voices in her
headโnudging the characters toward those bad decisions and seeing if she can get them a
happily ever after. When sheโs not writing, sheโs often still in the land of make-believeโdoing
makeup for film and television. And when sheโs not doing any of that, she enjoys making her
house look like a Pinterest board, watching football, and road trips to the middle of nowhere.
Kristen doesnโt have any kids, but she does have a very opinionated cockatiel.
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