Aventurine is a brave young dragon ready to explore the world outside of her family’s mountain cave. If only they’d let her leave it. Her family thinks she’s too young to fly on her own. But, She captures the most dangerous prey of them all! She will prove them wrong. She captures a human.
That human tricks her into drinking enchanted hot chocolate. She transforms into a puny human without any sharp teeth, fire breath, or claws. Still, she’s the fiercest creature in these mountains–and now she’s found her true passion: chocolate. All she has to do is get to the human city to find herself an apprenticeship in a chocolate house. She’ll be conquering new territory in no time . . . won’t she?
Stephanie Burgis grew up in America but now lives in Wales with her husband (fellow writer Patrick Samphire), their two young sons, and their extremely vocal tabby cat. In between those two points, she spent time playing in orchestras, studying music history in Vienna, and editing the website of an opera company in Leeds.
She writes fun, funny MG fantasy adventures for kids and wildly romantic historical fantasy novels for adults.
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Her first book, A MOST IMPROPER MAGICK, won the 2011 Waverton Good Read Children’s Award for Best Début Children’s Novel by a British Author, and it was followed by two more novels and a novella (“Courting Magic”) in the Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson series. Her book THE DRAGON WITH A CHOCOLATE HEART (published by Bloomsbury in the UK, Australia, the US and Canada) marked the beginning of a sparkling new chocolate-infused fantasy adventure series for children.
She is also the author of a series of wildly romantic historical fantasy novellas for adults, THE HARWOOD SPELLBOOK (which begins with SNOWSPELLED), as well as two full-length novels for adults, MASKS AND SHADOWS and CONGRESS OF SECRETS (published by Pyr Books in the US and Canada), and she co-edited the anthology THE UNDERWATER BALLROOM SOCIETY. She has had over thirty short stories published in various magazines and anthologies.
