"Captivating second offering of the dragon series!"

By: Shana Abe

Genres: Romance Paranormal | Fantasy

Posted: October 15, 2006

Shana Abé weaves a dream spell with her latest drákon novel THE DREAM THIEF. Rue and Kit, the main characters from The Smoke Thief, have been living at Darkfrith raising their children. Their youngest daughter Amalia (Lia) is tormented by her lack of drákon Gifts... and her dreams. The dreaming diamond, Draumr, is calling out to her, showing her scenes of the future. But which future will it be? Each version lies in the arms of Zane, the boy, befriended by her mother so many years ago in London, now a man, the lord of the London underworld. In Lia's dreams he holds the power to destroy her family because he holds Dramur which has the power to control drákon. The song of the diamond has called out to Lia since childhood and now the diamond has called out to her to find it.

Abé leads the reader through Lia and Zane's journey from England to the Carpathian mountains to retrieve Draumr. Zane must overcome his humble beginnings in order to achieve the greatness his thief's heart feels that he deserves. This novel captivated me as I traveled through the chilling Carpathian countryside and Lia's dreams. Abé's character development of Zane through the use of Lia's dreamscapes was striking. I was enthralled by the story, and can't wait for the story of the drákon to continue.

Book Summary

In the remote hills of northern England lives a powerful clan with a centuries-old secret. They are the drákon, shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turn—changing from human to smoke to dragon. And from the very stones of the earth, they hear hypnotic songs of beauty and wonder. But there is one stone they fear....

Buried deep within the bowels of the Carpathian Mountains lies the legendary dreaming diamond known as Draumr, the only gem with the power to enslave the drákon. Since childhood, Lady Amalia Langford, daughter of the clan’s Alpha, has heard its haunting ballad but kept it secret, along with another rare Gift....

Lia can hear the future, much in the way she hears the call of Draumr. And in that future, she realizes that the diamond — along with the fate of the drákon — rests in the hands of a human man, one who straddles two worlds.

Ruthlessly clever, Zane has risen through London’s criminal underworld to become its ruler. Once a street urchin saved by Lia’s mother, Zane is also privy to the secrets of the clan — and is the only human they trust to bring them Draumr. But he does nothing selflessly.

Zane’s hunt for the gem takes him to Hungary, where he is shocked to encounter a bold, beautiful young noblewoman: Lia. She has broken every rule of the drákon to join him, driven by the urgent song of Draumr — and her visions of Zane. In one future, he is her ally. In another, her overlord. In both, he is her lover. Now, to protect her tribe, Lia must tie her fate to Zane’s, to the one man capable of stealing her future — and destroying her heart....

The Dream Thief by Shana Abe

The Dream Thief

by: Shana Abe

Drakon #2

Bantam
October 1, 2006
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Featuring: Lia Langford; Zane
288 pages
ISBN: 0553804936
EAN: 9780553804935
Kindle: B000JMKTIW
Hardcover / e-Book

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