title: Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West
author: Marianne Carus
description: With a foreword by Jane Yolen, Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West, ed. by Marianne Carus, illus. by Nilesh Mistry, brings together 15 serpent stories set in, among other places, England's Nottingham Forest, the waters surrounding Korea and a seaside village in Japan. Contributors include Patricia MacLachlan, Eric A. Kimmel and E. Nesbit; most of the stories were previously published, the majority of them in Cricket magazine. <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Betrothed to the Dragon
  
  
  ### The Lick of Fire Collection
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Kara Lockharte
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # About Betrothed to the Dragon
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Lick of Fire is a mini-series collection from twelve best selling authors.
  Enter this supernatural world of fire and heat, magic and adventure, and get
  lost in everything DARK, delicious and FIRE._
  
  
  
  
  
  **_BETROTHED TO THE DRAGON is the FIRST in Kara Lockharte’s DRAGON LOVERS
  mini-series. It is the 11th series starter within the Lick of Fire
  Collection._**
  
  
  
  
  
  I like to pretend I’m just another immigrant trying make her way in New York
  City…but I’m not.
  
  
  You may know of my family from stories of an older age. Across all nations,
  all cultures, my family was once worshipped as gods, cursed as demons and
  shunned as otherworldly creatures.
  
  
  Reality? I am shen, but the w