title: Captured by Your Kiss: Brides of the Bloodstone
author:  Jen Holling 
description: ...skillfully written...each book of the trilogy seems to melt into the other. All the stories are worth re-reading. -- <i>Rendezvous</i><br /><br />a fantastic conclusion of this fascinating trilogy...adventure, danger and a beautiful love story. -- <i>Reader to Reader</i><br /><br />a romantic tale...characters who stay in your heart long after their story is over...a gem of a book. -- <i>Word on Romance</i><br /><br />sure to captivate her readers...full of love and adventure...sure to thrill those who enjoy a medieval tale. -- <i>Romance Reviews Today</i>
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  **The Merchant of Death**
  
   **(Book 1 of Pendragon: Journey of an Adventure Through Time and Space)**
  **D. J. MacHale**
  
   **PENDRAGON**
  
  I hope you’re reading this, Mark.
  
  Heck, I hope anybody’s reading this because the only thing that’s keeping me
  from going totally off my nut right now is getting this all down on paper so
  that someday, when it’s all over, it’ll help prove that I’m not a total whack
  job. You see, two things happened yesterday that changed my life forever.
  
  The first was that I finally kissed Courtney Chetwynde. Yes, the Courtney
  Chetwynde of the bites-her-lower-lip-when-she’s-thinking, stares-right-into-
  your-heart-with-her-deep-gray-eyes, looks-unbelievable-in-her-volleyball-
  uniform, and always-smells-a-little-like-roses fame. Yeah, I kissed her. It
  was a long time coming and it finally happened. Woo-hoo!
  
  The second thing was that I was launched through a wormhole called a “flume”
  and got jacked across the universe to a medieval planet 