Sauragia

Copyright & Introduction

SAURAGIA

J. S. ALLEN

For Mrs. Hodgell.

Thanks for the memories.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text and Map Copyright © 2022 by J. S. Allen

Cover Art Copyright © 2020 by Heather Bruton

First published in 2020 by J.S.A. Books,

an imprint of J.S.A. Media

This edition published by Bluedrake Books,

an imprint of Ash Tree Media

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

Publisher’s Cataloging-In-Publication Data

(Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.)

Names: Allen, J. S., 1995- author.

Title: Sauragia / J.S. Allen.

Description: [Belton, Missouri] : Bluedrake Books, an imprint of Ash Tree Media, [2022] | Series: Sauragia ; [1] | Interest age level: 13 and up. | Originally published: J.S.A. Books, an imprint of J.S.A. Media, 2020. | Summary: "Decades of peace are shattered by the arrival of the ambitious King Edward and his barbarous Saltrak horde in the Realm of Cardolin. With its best dinosaurs captured or killed right away, it is up to new arrival Astron to try and save the besieged capital city of Saurahall"-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: ISBN 9781956619003 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781956619010 (paperback) | ISBN 9781956619027 (ePub)

Subjects: LCSH: Kings and rulers--Juvenile fiction. | Dinosaurs--Juvenile fiction. | Imaginary places--Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Kings, queens, rulers, etc.--Fiction. | Dinosaurs--Fiction. | Imaginary places--Fiction. | LCGFT: Fantasy fiction. | Action and adventure fiction. | BISAC: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / Epic. | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Animals / General. | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.A4386 Sa 2022 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.A4386 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]--dc23

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A new day broke over the rocky hills of West Aldock. The thin mantle of lingering fog slowly began to disperse as the first red rays of the sun slashed across the purple dawn sky like b****y clawmarks. Silent tension hung like a taut bowstring across the late spring air. The omens were good.

So thought the owner of the two pale yellow-green eyes observing this beautiful morning from a copse to the south. His thin reptilian lips curled into a smile that looked singularly out of place on his pointy grey-green face. All his life he had followed the sun. He had chased it to its origins in the eastern sea and now ruled everything between here and there. The time had come to follow it to its glorious resting place in the west. His eyes gleamed with delight at the thought of the conquests to come. Yes, destiny had called his name.

And he was ready to answer.