title: Dark Embers: A Dragon's Heat Novel
author:  Tessa Adams 
description: Tessa Adams lives in Texas and teaches writing at her local community college. She is married and the mother of three young sons.
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  Scale of a Dragon
  
  
  
  
  
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  J. Michael Radcliffe
  
  
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Smashwords edition
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 01/23/2011 all rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The warm glow of a fire flickered through the window, beckoning to Callen as
  she struggled through the snow towards the cottage. It was late; it had taken
  her much longer to gather the firewood for the night than she had thought, and
  darkness had fallen while she was still in the forest. The wind was bitterly
  cold, slicing through her furs like a knife and stinging her face. Every
  breath she took seared her lungs as the icy fingers of air tried to freeze her
  heart. She struggled to pull the sled laden with firewood through the drifting
  snow, her fur lined boots crunching as she walked. She’d had to journey deeper
  into Ebonwood day after day trying to find dry tinder to keep her cottage warm
  through the long winter nights. Much of the debris she normally found, fallen
  branches, sticks and the like, had been consumed by fi