title: Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Valentine's Day: With Love, Cards, and Candy
author:  Carolyn Otto 
description: The author of more than 20 books, CAROLYN OTTO is best known for her award-winning children's nonfiction titles, including the Scholastic Science Readers Wolves and Spiders, and What Color is Camouflage? in the HarperCollins Let's Read-and-Find-Out Science Series. Otto, who has also written poetry and fiction for children as well as adults, has a BA in English from Colorado College. She earned her MA from NYU while concurrently working for a major publishing company in New York. After a number of years in New York, she returned to her native Colorado.
zlib_text: BIG BAD DRAGON
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
  BIG, BAD DRAGON
  A VALENTINE SURPRISE
   
   
  Fated Book 1
   
  AERYN JADEN
  
   
   
   
   
  Big, Bad Dragon
   
  MM/ Gay Paranormal Romance – with a touch of ‘irregular’ mpreg
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  
  For all the members of my wonderful Facebook
  family.  Your support means the world.
  
  Chapter One
   
   
  Valentine’s Day is the day of horrors coming to life; it should be dubbed
  the most stressful and feared day in the year. Really, it should. How many of
  you’ve ever had a nice, perfect, card-like V-Day?
  I’ll tell you my score if you tell me yours. Hell, I’ll tell you mine either
  way: zero, zilch, not one picture-perfect day. Why humans continue to do this
  charade every year is beyond my understanding. I tried having a nice
  Valentine from the day the idea was created and I’m still here, complaining
  and contemplating where it went wrong. My conclusion is its very existence
  is wrong. The 