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They’ve been living underground for fifty-thousand years. Now they’re returning to the surface, to reclaim the earth. And they have the firepower to do it. Welcome to the second in the Dragons Among Us series, “The Lost City Of The Dead”. As with any ongoing, interconnected series, the DAU books follow a broad lineup of main characters who move from a distinct beginning and continuously progress toward an inevitable, climactic conclusion. The novels are designed for Young Adults and contain adult language, frightening imagery and some scenes of graphic violence. The first in the series, “The Ghosts Of Walker Pines” introduces us to fifteen-year-old Katie Baxter, a teen who will need to grow up fast in a world on the brink of cataclysmic change. A transformation not so much in terms of physical destruction, but an upheaval of reality itself. Humans were not the only creatures to evolve as sentient beings and dominate the Earth. There was another. Forgotten. Defeated in battle. And driven from both the memories of advanced peoples and from the surface upon which their ancient kingdoms rested. After years of being drawn toward some unimaginable destiny, called-to by telepathic, inscrutable voices other than human, only-child Katie has left her therapists behind in Flagstaff and, together with her widower father, moved to the sleepy town of Walker Pines, Arizona. The once-quiet rural community has recently awakened to an influx of scientists, all of whom have been hired by a newly completed biological research facility operated by the mysterious Florauna corporation. Katie’s father, George, is one of the new employees who has been befriended by the company’s head supervisor, Rutger. Unknown to everyone, Rutger is a highly advanced species of dragon who has lived among humans for three-hundred years. Centuries spent planning, scheming, and preparing for his kind’s imminent, triumphant return to the surface world. In the ancient past, dragons and humans had shared the Earth together and lived in peace as brothers and sisters under scale and skin. But a great war had driven them apart and only now, as they face extinction from living too long underground, has the time arrived for them to no longer delay their return migration to the surface. Having come of age, Katie, who is half dragon herself, is seen as the Deliverer who with Rutger’s help, will lead the dragons back to living side by side with humans. Not everyone favors the decision to be friends again with their former enemies, however, and Katie becomes increasingly entangled in a power struggle between epic, epochal forces of good and evil. As we again join Katie with her entourage of friends and family, both animal and human, her friendship with “uncle” Rutger continues to grow more intimate and complex. Accompanied once more by her macaw parrot, a dog, cat, her grandmother Ruthie and friend Nela, her dad and his fiancé Liz, plus a host of other hybrid creatures too strange to describe here, Katie is torn between a prophesied commitment to her dragon friends and trying to live some kind of normal life as a more or less typical teenager. Amid all the turmoil of the times, Katie has survived two assassination attempts and remains surrounded by shape-shifting dragons masquerading as both people and animals. She can never know for sure who is who or what is what. Uncle Rutger finally takes the Baxter family on a wild ride into Arizona’s Grand Canyon. Some kind of “lost city” has caught his interest and he’s decided to investigate. What follows is an amazing adventure into the unexplored depths of the Canyon where discoveries no less incredible than the existence of real-life dragons await our brave band of explorers. As Katie’s father and step-mother get married, leave on their honeymoon, and the story concludes, things are just beginning.

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