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February 1, 2026—Updates

Luckily, where I live wasn’t impacted by the winter weather brought by Fern. My thoughts are with those of you who were affected—I hope you’re staying safe and warm.

My standalone stories PQARK and The Plains are back in my hands. My wonderful editor has suggested another round of edits—and you know me, I want to give you the best book possible. The Plains has already been updated with her notes, and I want to do a careful read-through to be sure I captured everything. I’ll be starting edits on PQARK this week.

Meanwhile, back in December I roughed out a standalone story set in Savannah, Georgia. For those who don’t know, Savannah is one of my favorite cities, and I visit as often as I can.

This January, I roughed out what I hoped would be a standalone—but to do the story correctly, it will be a three-book series. I’ll say more once I’m closer to finishing.

As for Jennifer’s world: The Dragon Age Prophecy Book 4 is with the developmental editor, and Book 5 (the final book) is roughed in.

In that same world, I’ll also be releasing ten standalone stories that take place between Books 4 and 5. I call this series Dernogard 10. Books 1 and 2 are close to being ready for developmental edits, and I hope to start Book 3 in March.

Blessings—back to my writing desk.


N. A. Hydes

Ignition to Sanctum

This story is about the unexpected…

College student, dragon shifter, and dating the man of her dreams, Jennifer Wright hoped to have time to adjust to all the new changes before something else happens. Too bad others know she exists and want to trap her.

Forced into a cult called the Family, Shanna White feels stuck. When the person she is ordered to watch awakens, could capturing the dragon shifter help Shanna escape? Is Jennifer the key to releasing Shanna from her cage?

Legend to Flames
This story is about survival…

Survival is on Jennifer Wright’s mind since she’s told no one her secret—she’s a dragon shifter. Maybe the last dragon on Earth. As an apex predator she knows the best way to kill anything is to get it alone, separated from others. When she recognizes the smell of hunger from another student who has eaten a dragon’s heart, she realizes she is on the menu.

What she needs now is a friend, a confidant, a partner.

But who will she tell and bring into her fairytale? Her boyfriend is faithful, trustworthy, and a good friend. Dr. Smith is sexy, ancient, and an unknown.

When she picks one, she loses the other.

Ashes to Scales
This story is about things that shouldn’t exist…

Like a college student that turns into a dragon. Yet, while camping Jennifer Wright literally had the dragon scared out of her. It’s such an unexpected event, with unavoidable consequences, she decides she might have something medically wrong with her.

She notices changes in her senses, such as some people don’t exactly smell right, including a college professor.

Odd that despite having a smoking hot boyfriend, she has a strange desire to get to know the teacher intimately.

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