Stephanie Burgis grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, but now lives in Wales with her husband and two sons, surrounded by mountains, castles and coffee shops. I hope it brings you a joyful escape and fun whenever you try it!” You can sign up to my Patreon (at the Dragon Ruler level) to catch up on the first ten chapters and get the rest of the chapters delivered to your inbox every week across the year, or you can preorder the novel now to read it in October. I hope you’ll enjoy meeting them both!Īnd you can read the first chapter right here. I love seeing Elinor with Sir Jessamyn, the dangerously delightful pet dragon on her shoulder. So I asked her for a new style of fun, frothy Regency fantasy for my new series (Regency Dragons)…and oh, wow, did she deliver! Ravven designed the covers for two of my earlier novellas (in my Harwood Spellbook series), Spellswept and Moontangled, and I love her work. The full book will come out in October, though, and from the moment I decided to launch this project, I knew exactly who I wanted to approach for its cover. So, new chapters have been winging their way into patron inboxes every Saturday since late January (we’re up through Chapter 10 now!), and every single time, I’m aiming for comfort, fun, and delight at the end of a long week. “I decided to publish this novel first as a serial on my Patreon because honestly, we all need treats to brighten up our weeks in this year of ongoing pandemic and more. Maybe, just maybe, she’ll even be impractical enough to win her own true love and a happily ever after…with the unpredictable and dangerous “help” of the magical creature who has adopted her.Ī frothy Regency rom-com full of pet dragons and magical misadventures, Scales and Sensibility is a full-length novel and the first in a new series Now Elinor will have to find out just how rash and resourceful she can be when she sets aside all common sense. However, even the most brilliant scholars of 1817 England still haven’t ferreted out all the lurking secrets of rediscovered dragonkind…and even the most sensible of heroines can still make a reckless wish or two when she’s pushed. And she never dreamed that she would have to enter into an outrageous magical charade to save her younger sisters’ futures. She never expected to fall in love with the shameless – but surprisingly sweet – fortune hunter who came to court Penelope, either. She certainly never meant to kidnap her awful cousin Penelope’s pet dragon.

Sensible, practical Elinor Tregarth really did plan to be the model poor relation when she moved into her aunt and uncle’s house.

A Reckless Magick by Stephanie Burgis