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“Dragon's Teeth ”

written by Harriet Klausner on 06/09/2006

Dragon's Teeth

James A. Hetley

Ace, November 2006, $14.00, 336 pp.

ISBN 0441014313



Stonefort, Maine is an unusual town because of the two prominent families that live there. The female Haskells are witches, and The Witch is Alice who lives in the House, a living entity that has rules, changes form and influences the actions of people who live there. The Morgans are selkie shape-changers who possess the magical dragon and it gives a tear to those Morgans it deem worthy. The tear is magic in its purest form and it allows the Morgans to communicate with each other.



When Alice's lover Kate is driving through the woods, she finds a body in a stone circle with its heart cut out. Kate, who doesn't believe in magic, even though she used magic to help kill, feels the stones strengthen her. Another corpse in the same condition is found on Ben Morgan's grave, even though Ben is alive. He is fascinated by a Peruvian artifact that is dark magic and wants to get a hold on him. Kate is seeing the body of her dead daughter Jackie, whose body was never recovered. When someone near and dear to Kate disappears and will be sacrificed, Kate must suspend her disbelief, retrieve the artifact and stop the killer.



This sequel to DRAGON'S EYE is a magical urban fantasy that combines loyalty, trust, love and acceptance into a plot that is filled with enhancements, dark and white magic and sorcery. The people who populate the town listen to Alice because they know Haskell witches can help them, and never will tell because of the Morgan shifter. James A. Hetley is an extraordinary writer who writes a very original and entertaining story.