This author crafts compelling narratives that often blur the lines between the fantastical and the real. Her writing style is typically fluid and engaging, drawing readers into worlds filled with unexpected twists and profound emotions. Donovan is often drawn to themes of friendship, finding one's place in the world, and overcoming adversity. Her works are celebrated for their originality and ability to evoke powerful reader experiences.
Facing imminent danger from dragon hunters, Evie Marshall, an inspector for the Department of Dragon Affairs, must seduce the leader of Clan Stonefire to save her life. With no experience in romance or the complexities of dragon-shifters, she is thrust into a high-stakes situation where her survival depends on her ability to learn quickly and navigate the challenges of attraction and trust within a clan of dragons.
STONEFIRE DRAGONS BOOK 5 Tired of reporting the news but never investigating, Jane Hartley is determined to expose the truth of the Carlisle dragon hunters. While meeting with one of her sources, she spots the tall, blond dragonman she first saw three months ago back on Stonefire. When the dragonman warns her off, Jane becomes more determined than ever to find the truth before he does. With most of the threats to his clan under control, Kai Sutherland wants to find a way to take down the Carlisle hunters for good. In the beginning of his investigation, he sees the human female his dragon wants. Putting aside his own needs, he tries to scare her away to focus on the hunters, but the female refuses to go. As they work together to discover the hunters' secrets, the attraction between them threatens the investigation. Kai never expected to find his second chance, yet as the danger amps up, can he find a way to have her while still protecting his clan?
In order to pay for her father's life-saving cancer treatment, Holly Anderson offers herself up as a sacrifice and sells the vial of dragon's blood. In return, she will try to bear a Scottish dragon-shifter a child. While the dragonman assigned to her is kind, Holly can't stop looking at his twin brother. It's going to take everything she has to sleep with her assigned dragonman. If she breaks the sacrifice contract and follows her heart, she'll go to jail and not be able to take care of her father. Even though he's not ready to settle down, Fraser MacKenzie supports his twin brother's choice to take a female sacrifice to help repopulate the clan. Yet as Fraser gets to know the lass, his dragon starts demanding something he can't have-his brother's sacrifice. Holly and Fraser fight the pull between them, but one nearly stolen kiss will change everything. Will they risk breaking the law and betraying Fraser's twin? Or, will they find a way out of the sacrifice contract and live their own happily ever after?
A dragonwoman who doesn't know how to shift, a single dad struggling after an injury, and a student/teacher relationship that turns into something more... After spending seven years as a prisoner inside an illegal dragon research facility, Persephone "Percy" Smith is rescued by Clan Stonefire and taken back to their land. Everything she sees there contradicts what she was told growing up, and Percy realizes she has no idea how to be a dragon-shifter. To help her learn, she's assigned a kind and sexy yet determined dragonman named Bronx Wells to be her teacher, along with his fifteen-year-old daughter. But she's skeptical about everyone's kindness, which she's always viewed as a weakness. Growing up in an orphanage that forced dragon-shifter children to act like humans, as well as being sold at age thirteen to the research facility, she's learned the hard way that caring about others only ever gets her hurt. To survive, she never, ever trusts anyone but herself. However, as Bronx and his daughter slowly teach Percy how to embrace her dragon and discover who she truly is, she wonders if maybe there are good people in the world-especially since Bronx gives her choices that no one else ever has. Soon, she starts to feel things she's never felt before and wonders if she could ever trust him. Can Percy risk opening her fragile heart to Bronx? Or will she have to leave her first real home on Stonefire to protect herself?
In exchange for a vial of dragon's blood to save her brother's life, Melanie Hall offers herself up as a sacrifice to one of the British dragon-shifter clans. Being a sacrifice means signing a contract to live with the dragon-shifters for six months to try to conceive a child. Her assigned dragonman, however, is anything but easy. He's tall, broody, and alpha to the core. There's only one problem-he hates humans. Due to human dragon hunters killing his mother, Tristan MacLeod despises humans. Unfortunately, his clan is in desperate need of offspring to repopulate their numbers and it's his turn to service a human female. Despite his plans to sleep with her and walk away, his inner dragon has other ideas. The curvy human female tempts his inner beast like no other.
In exchange for favors to help his clan, PineRock's dragon leader Wes Dalton agrees to participate in a charity auction. After all, one evening dining or dancing with one lucky bidder shouldn't be too hard to endure. Then he notices the true mate he can never have in the audience-Ashley Swift. When she wins him for the night, the battle begins between what his dragon half wants and what his human half tries to deny.Ashley Swift worked her way up the ranks of the American Department of Dragon Affairs and knows the ins and outs of dragon-shifters in her area. And while it's against the rules and she knows it, Ashley is drawn to PineRock's clan leader. They've danced around each other for years, but Ashley has finally found a way to spend an evening with Wes-a charity auction. Nothing in the rules prevents her from bidding, and she wins. One night is all she needs to get him out of her system, or so she tries to tell herself.As the pair dance around their undeniable attraction to one another, more than Ashley's job or Wes's position is at stake. They stumble upon unrest brewing in Reno, and it's up to them to protect the clan. Only then can they think of a way to skirt the rules and be together.NOTE: This is a quick, steamy standalone story about fated mates and sexy dragon-shifters near Lake Tahoe in the USA. You don't have to read all my other dragon books to enjoy this one!