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Dragon Queen by Stephen Deas is out now in paperback – and this is your chance to see the prologue that the editor decided not to put in the book!

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Dragon Queen by Stephen Deas is out now in paperback – and this is your chance to see the prologue that the editor decided not to put in the book!

Fantasy fans ahoy! The latest entry in Stephen Deas's Memory Of Flames series is out now in paperback but if you want to read the author's original prologue "Night Of The Knives" click the cover image below.

"In the years before the Dragons laid waste to man's empire, the fearsome monsters were used for war and as gifts of surpassing wealth to buy favour in the constant political battles that tore at the kingdoms," reads the blurb. "Notorious in these battles was the Dragon Queen. And now she is a prisoner. But no one is more dangerous than when caged..." Find out more at the author's official site or at the site of publisher Gollancz .

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