Two more days!
Here is the official excerpt from Notice. It’s also the opening of the novel.
I was a creature of many secrets.
The three aspects of my life — my human teaching career, my dragon life, and my homosexuality — stayed so separate that only two people alive, my bodyguards, knew everything, and I kept even them on the fringes. My dragons only knew that I also taught human children, but my students didn’t know about my dragons and certainly not about my sexuality, and my lover only knew I was a teacher and had no idea that I was also a dragon, and I liked it that way very much.
My worst nightmare was to have my three lives collide. I knew who would be the causality if that happened.
I taught history in a small high school in northern Vermont
And about someone who would be lying on cool sheets in our bedroom, freshly showered, waiting for me…
I shuffled through the papers as I walked to the front of the classroom, and I suddenly felt my heart stop for an instant.
One of the forms in the middle of the pile was blank, except for the words, “Consider this your official notice.”
A student? My thoughts dissolved in horror.
The knights were after me again.
And had sent a student to kill me.
