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The Living Dragon

Name: The Living Dragon
Rating: 4.75 (96 reviews)
Author: IcedFairy

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The Immigrant Realm. A crossroads between magical domains. A place where heroes from the Greek legends, fairies from Avalon, and youkai from the Realms of Illusion, can meet, trade, and hide from people who want them dead. Exiled witch Helena Aoede falls in the last group, having fled her home in Thebes after angering Apollo. Now she lives in the ghetto, trying to scrape together rent money.

So when she’s called on to help solve a supernatural murder case, she leaps at the chance. But what was supposed to be a simple consultation rapidly escalates into a blood feud with the ‘Living Dragon,’ a magician backed by an unstoppable undead monster. Now she’s caught in a magical gang war, with only a clueless undead martial artist as backup.

Life was so much easier when she could just turn people into pigs.

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