title: Flying Blind: The Dragon Diaries
author:  Deborah Cooke 
description: Deborah Cooke has always been fascinated with dragons, although she has never understood why they have to be the bad guys. She has an honors degree in history, with a focus on medieval studies.She is an avid reader of medieval vernacular literature, fairy tales and fantasy novels, and has written over forty romance novels under the names Claire Cross and Claire Delacroix.
zlib_text: _**The Dragon Bard**_
  
    
  
  by
  
    
  
  Mary Gillgannon
  
    
    
    
  
   _To Jim Morrison, for believing in the power of words and music to change the
  world._
  
    
    
    
  
  Copyright 2012 by Mary Gillgannon
  
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