They swelled out and in with every shallow breath, the movement of her lungs made visible. The French dragon’s immense sides were sunken in between her ribs so deeply that each hollow looked like the span of a rope bridge.

As he dismounted, Laurence saw its small hard shining eyes peering patiently out from beneath the bramble. A cloud of raucous crows lifted when Temeraire’s shadow fell over the clearing, and a stoat slunk away into the underbrush, coat white, muzzle red. THE CHEVALIER WAS NOT dead when they found her, but the scavengers had already begun to pick at her body. | GSAFD: Alternative histories (Fiction) | Fantasy fiction.Ĭlassification: LCC PS3614.O (print) | LCC PS3614.O93 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6-dc23 LC record available at 2016008015Ĭover illustration: © Craig Howell/Cheeba Productions Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dataĭescription: New York : Del Rey, | Series: Temeraire 9 Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.ĭEL REY and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

League of dragons by naomi novik