Dragonmeat (Eterean Empire)

Dragonmeat is poison. But what if you’re starving?

Peri will do anything to keep her chronically ill father alive in a city that's starving to death. Using her now useless scholarly talents to research thievery, she’s become a highly successful food thief—small, ordinary—invisible. In Medeas, gripped in the iron fist of its mad governor, ravaged by dragons, hiding is a way of life.

Then her stealing triggers a riot, and a mysterious stranger steps in to save her. Frost has food and he’s willing to share his secret...but talking to him might be the most dangerous thing Peri’s ever done. How can she find the courage to leave her safe shadows and take a stand when her father’s life hangs in the balance?

Dragonmeat is a novella about a woman discovering her own power under the most impossible of conditions, set in the Eterean Empire - a lush, dangerous world inspired by Rome and Renaissance Italy.