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Dragon's Ring


CoverTasmarin is a place of dragons, a plane cut off from all other worlds, where dragons can be dragons and humans can be dinner. It's a place of islands, forests, mountains and wild oceans, filled with magical denizens. Fionn—the black dragon—calmly tells anyone who will listen that he's going to destroy the place.

Of course he's a joker, a troublemaker and a dragon of no fixed abode. No one ever believes him.    

He's dead serious.   

Others strive to refresh the magics that built this place. To do so they need the combined magics of all the intelligent species, to renew the ancient balance and compact. There is just one problem. They need a human mage, and dragons systematically eliminated those centuries ago. Their augury has revealed that there is one, and they seek her desperately. Unfortunately, she's fallen in with Fionn, who really doesn't want them to succeed. He has his own reasons and dark designs.   The part he hadn't worked out is that she will affect his plans too.

Chaos, roguery, heroism, theft, love, kidnapping, magic and war follow. And more chaos.  

"Good characterization, ripsnorting action and an ingenious plot make this a feast for sword and sorcery fans."
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on Dave Freer's A Mankind Witch

Cover Art by Bob Eggleton


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, October 2009

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-3319-4
ISBN-10: 1-4391-3319-0

Copyright© 2009 by Dave Freer

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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This one is for my sons, Paddy and James,
the two finest lads in my universe.
I hope it may give you even one thousandth
as much pride and joy as you have given to me.
 

BAEN BOOKS by DAVE FREER

Dragon's Ring
A Mankind Witch
The Forlorn

with Eric Flint

Rats, Bats & Vats
The Rats, The Bats & the Ugly

Pyramid Scheme
Pyramid Power

Slow Train to Arcturus

The Sorceress of Karres (forthcoming)

with Eric Flint & Mercedes Lackey

The Shadow of the Lion
This Rough Magic
Much Fall of Blood (forthcoming)

The Wizard of Karres

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