Everyone in the Drion Collective knows that finding your match - the one person in existence with the same soul mark as yours - is the best thing that could ever happen. But the last thing Lord Anders Hawthorne is thinking about when he boards a ship to Drion for the king's funeral is finding his so
In His Majesty's Service
β Scribed by Naomi Novik
- Book ID
- 100197698
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Del Rey/Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 730 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0345514963
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β¦ Synopsis
Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik's New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books, and the excitement of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures. In His Majesty's Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story.
Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo--an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation's history.
Thrust into England's Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than...
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