The Sword and the Dragon by M.R. Mathias

The gargans seemed to be in shock, for they hadn’t even noticed the silver-coated Heart Tree yet. He’d lost his twin yesterday, or so she’d heard. It will be spectacular.Moonsy felt sorry for the skmoe. It has been a boon, the magic of the teardrop, for it brought you here to me didn't it? Now treat yourself to something fantastic and try out the free sample of one of my novels. My grandfather had apparently won it in a poker game near the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma sometime in the early 1900's. My grandfather died before I was born, but the ring was given to me by my mother, after my grandmother recently died. It hardened on its way down to land in a mess of troll corpses that the dragon was laying on. In my novel 'The Royal Dragoneers' you might find the moment where this wonderfully magical tear drop fell from a green dragons eye. It is the crystallized tear of a real dragon. The jewel you see glowing in the ring in my author's photo isn't really a jewel at all. His haunting chiller The Butcher's Boy is now available as well. Mathias also writes paranormal thrillers under the pen name Michael Robb. Then hold on for your life as you tear through the pages, because the pure blood dragons they have befriended have a plan too! Join some brave young men and a particularly clever magic wielding woman, as they traverse the wild frontier, and sail the sea to warn their king. The Royal Dragoneers-Hold on to your dragon! An Ivory antlered demon called Gravelbone, has a plan for the humans who are invading his territory.

The Sword and the Dragon- When the Royal Wizard of Westland poisons the king so that his puppet prince can take the throne and start a continental war, a young squire is forced to run for his life carrying the powerful sword that his dying monarch burdened him with from the death bed.

Every word on every page of The Wardstone Trilogy was a moment of freedom.' I was in a modern dungeon cell 23 hours a day, everyday. I was on a Maximum Security Unit for a while, over a few fights. Mathias has been clean and free since his release, and he has every intention of staying that way. The novels were written in longhand, without the luxury of spell check, or word processors, or even a dictionary. While he was there, he wrote several full length novels, and read several hundred more. Mathias is an author who, in his past, spent several years in a Texas prison for minor drug possession.

The Sword and the Dragon by M.R. Mathias