Heart of a Dragon: Book I of the DeChance Chronicles

Author's Revised EditionDonovan DeChance is a collector of ancient manuscripts and books, a practicing mage, and a private investigator. Over the span of a long life, he has gathered and archived the largest occult library in the world.When a local houngan begins meddling with powers she may not be able to control, a turf war breaks out between the Dragons motorcycle club and the Los Escorpiones street gang—a war that threatens to open portals between worlds and destroy the city in the process.With his lover, Amethyst, his familiar, Cleo – an Egyptian Mau the size of a small bobcat –the dubious aid of a Mexican sorcerer named Martinez and the budding gifts of a young artist named Salvatore, DeChance begins a race against time, magic, and almost certain death.The fate of the city rests on his success, and on the rare talent of a boy who walks in two worlds, and dreams of dragons

About the Author

David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties.  A former president of the Horror Writer's Association and multiple recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, his novels include Maelstrom, The Mote in Andrea's Eye, Deep Blue, the Grails Covenant Trilogy, Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis, Except You Go Through Shadow, This is My Blood, Ancient Eyes, On the Third Day, The Orffyreus Wheel, Vintage Soul, My Soul to Keep & Others, Kali's Tale, Heart of a Dragon, The Second Veil, The Parting, Nevermore - A Novel of Love, Loss & Edgar Allan Poe , Killer Green & Crockatiel - the newest novel in the new series O.C.L.T. David has also co-authored the Stargate Atlantis novel Brimstone, with Patricia Lee Macomber, and Hallowed Ground - written with International best-selling author Steven Savile. He has over 150 short stories published in anthologies, magazines, and five collections.  His work has appeared in and is due out in various anthologies and magazines, including the upcoming anthology 2113 - stories based on the music of Rush, edited by Kevin J. Anderson.  David lives and loves with Patricia Lee Macomber in Hertford, NC with their daughter Katie, and occasionally their genius college daughter Stephanie, three sons serving in the USN, Will, Zach, and Zane, their ridiculous Pekingese Gizmo, their spaz of a Cocker Spaniel, Callie, their not-so-vicious cat, Sid, a never-to-become-a-coat chinchilla named Pook Daddy, Bellatrix LeStrange (the cutest cat in the world) and various other creatures. David is CEO and founder of Crossroad Press, a cutting edge digital publishing company specializing in electronic novels, collections, and non-fiction, as well as unabridged audiobooks. Visit Crossroad Press at store.crossroadpress.com   Facebook:  facebook.com/david.niall.wilson Twitter: @David_N_Wilson Website: davidniallwilson.com

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