(This is a new writer's first novel. Please be kind if it's not to your taste, and I hope the experienced readers will be patient with me.)
When you were a child, flipping through fairy tales about heroes defeating evil dragons, did you ever wonder why dragons that weren't human would want to hoard so much treasure? Could it be that the tale of a hero slaying a dragon wasn't a play arranged in advance? A deal? A bargain between a dragon yearning for a challenge and a shrewd, calculating king...
