The Dragon Slayer's Son. This item is unavailable.The Dragon Slayer's Son

They said Dad was a dragon slayer. They were wrong.

When Nathan's dad goes missing, presumed dead, Nathan is whisked away to the Alexandra School of Heroic Arts to train as his replacement. At school, he and his new friends soon learn:

Dragons are not the worst monsters out there.

And Nathan's dad might not be dead ... yet.

Nathan and his friends escape from school to find his dad. To succeed, they'll need to seek the aid of the dragons and unravel an international ring of wildlife smugglers. If they fail, none of them will survive.

This action-packed novel, the first in the Dragon Defence League series, imagines dragons in modern day New Zealand. If you like adventure with a dose of fantasy, this is the book for you!

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Over the course of my career, I have been pleased to call myself an educator, entomologist, heritage interpreter, and an agroforestry extension agent, among other things. Through it all, I have written stories and poetry for my own pleasure. I published my first writing as a child in the 1970s, and used to confound my science teachers with poetry, scribbled at the end of essay questions. Now, after completing several novels, I'm pleased to be able to call myself an author. My first love was the natural world, and it plays a large part in most of my stories. I currently live in New Zealand and enjoy spending time in the mountains. Have I encountered dragons there? You'll just have to visit and discover for yourself.