Slayers: Playing With Fire

Having superpowers is overrated. It requires Tori to go to way more team practices than can comfortably fit into a normal teenagers schedule. Being a dragon slayer has other drawbacks too--like fighting dragons and keeping one step ahead of power-hungry dragon lords all without blowing her cover. Tori Hampton is a presidential candidates daughter which means she not only has a public reputation to maintain she also has a humorless bodyguard to ditch every time she needs to go on a mission.And Dr. B has plenty of missions for the Slayers. When he discovers that someone is selling dragon scales on the black market hes convinced the seller can give him the dragons location. A surprise strike could turn the tide in the Slayers favor but when they track down the seller they find more than theyve bargained for.Suddenly strategies need to change alliances shift and Tori finds herself caught in the precarious middle. Jesse the captain of the other Slayers team is everything she wants but then theres Dirk the dragon lords son--who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Hes determined to convince her that she should love dragons and love him too. The fact that he and his father plan to overthrow the government? Details not worth arguing about.Tori believes she can turn Dirk around and convince him to rejoin the Slayers but hes just as convinced that she should leave the Slayers and become a dragon lord. Dirk can teach Tori how to control dragons and its a skill she desperately wants. It could make all of the difference in a battle. It could save her friends lives. When Dirk offers to let her ride a dragon she knows that meeting him is like playing with fire.Praise for Slayers: More than a worthy equal of the works of Rick Riordan or Christopher Paolini.--Booklist