Shadow Queen — Christine McKay

Visit a world filled with men who transform themselves into dragons, women with extraordinary psychic powers and a creature belched up from the bowels of Hell bent on destroying them all.Once the Dragoon, a race of shape-shifting dragon people, owned the land, sea and sky. War, prejudice and time have whittled away their numbers. Queens, always precious, are ever so more as clutch size and fertility diminish. And then the Hunter and his hounds strike, supernatural creatures with a lust for Queens' blood.Leahlisande Belkirk and Cerenth Kildarkee are two of but a handful of powerful Queens left to the Dragoon. Rescued from her desecrated home, young and untrained Leahlisande must learn to wield the gift that enables her to control specters and spirits and walk the shadow lands. Even combined with the talents of world-weary, moody Cerenth, the most dangerous Queen ever hatched, and her secret consort, the water dragon healer Zeb, confronting the Hunter in his own realm will be no easy task.Lives will be lost. Prejudices cast aside. And legends born.