Kate Samuels

The Fifth Branch Kate Samuels

In Marlene's world, dragons are as common as cats and dogs--and about as welcome on a train. Which won't be a problem, as long as the transport police don't open her backpack.



Canadian exchange student Marlene and her roommate, Welsh magician Aurelia, are on the run. Marlene didn't mean to hatch the first true red dragon in a thousand years. Aurelia didn't mean to put him at the center of a bidding war. Now they must evade the police and the press to smuggle him to safety. Of course, it would help if Marlene had brought a phone charger, Aurelia had passed Magic 101, and their dracling wasn't on a collision course with the myth that put the red dragon on the Welsh flag...