Follow the Shadows

The Tales of Moerden Book 1

Rosemary Drisdelle

• Publisher: SparkPress
• eBook ISBN:
  9781684632190
• Year: 2023

When Marise Leeson gets her hands on a crystal ball, she believes her knowledge of Wicca is about to expand. The magic, however, goes horribly wrong. In short order, she’s thrown into an alternate world, attacked by a dragon, and rescued by Javeer, a young male dragon in search of a friend.

Marise is desperate to get home alive. Instead of dabbling in scrying and spells, she must now use her Wicca skills to survive in Moerden—navigating rival dragon factions, riding Javeer without falling, and dodging unknown perils of an alien landscape. Through a series of adventures and mishaps, she learns that the dragons face slow extinction from a mysterious disease. Some see Marise as part of the cause. Some hope she’s a key to a cure.

Marise grows up fast as her focus switches from escape from Moerden to saving the dragons. She draws upon her powers, intuition, and some help from home as she and Javeer begin a quest to solve the puzzle of the stagger. If they survive, and if their trust and courage are strong, they may succeed. If they do not, the dragons of Moerden will cease to exist.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Map
• Prologue
• Chapter One. Things That Don’t Concern You
• Chapter Two. Within the Crystal Ball
• Chapter Three. Useless Gristle
• Chapter Four. Sphere Rules
• Chapter Five. Learning to Fly
• Chapter Six. Forbidden
• Chapter Seven. Flight from Cliff Rhumba
• Chapter Eight. Beyond the Falls
• Chapter Nine. Secrets and Revelations
• Chapter Ten. Mystery of the Moerden Plague
• Chapter Eleven. Canyon Rats
• Chapter Twelve. Remains of the Dead
• Chapter Thirteen. Fugitives
• Chapter Fourteen. Alone in the Canyon
• Chapter Fifteen. Moerden’s Deer
• Chapter Sixteen. No Safe Haven
• Chapter Seventeen. Tiderook
• Chapter Eighteen. The Lusus Forest
• Chapter Nineteen. Caballeros
• Chapter Twenty. Dragon’s Mind
• Chapter Twenty-One. A Collection of Bones
• Chapter Twenty-Two. Detour
• Chapter Twenty-Three. Emergency Surgery
• Chapter Twenty-Four. Marise’s Pearlies
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Selected Titles from SparkPress