Dragon's Ridge: A historical fantasy novel

An orphanage headmistress is snatched saving a child from a dragon and the world believes her dead and eaten. For centuries Gasconys top predators have treated humankind as easy prey. But Isodores misery has only begun. On a lonely ledge high in the Pyrénées where even the famed dragonslayers wont go she comes to terms with the nature of dragons her fate in her captors hands and her own dark secret. A child survivor of a dragons wrath she has relied on her wits to stay alive. But its compassion that gives that life meaning: stirring a warriors idealism breaching class divisions and sustaining love for an outcast. On Dragons Ridge Isodores struggle brings the two virtues into conflict. She placates her captor to plot her escape unaware that the plan will cost her a part of herself she can never get back.