The Cherie Reich Sampler
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Four friends. One broken down truck. No cell service. And the monster that hunts them in Once upon a December Nightmare from the collection Once upon a Nightmare.
Draw back the curtain and glimpse the extraordinary world of Foxwick and its neighbors in A to Z Flashes of Foxwick.
From People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors, a mother dragon will save her son at any cost in "Dragon's Sacrifice," a dragon seer goes undercover to spy on a sorceress queen in "Dragon Spy," and a dragon seer, captured by a queen, must seek out the ice dragons to save her kingdom in "Dragon Seer."
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