The Dragon’s Redemption by Martha Woods

Alicia Lehmann’s life is not what she had hoped it would be– but then again, whose is?
Having pursued a fine arts degree in hopes of one day becoming a wildlife photographer, she finds herself instead working as a paparazzo of all things– an occupation she herself considers to be the lowest of the low on this earth. It pays well, but that’s about it.
She feels gross about what she does, stalking celebrities and invading their personal lives just to be able to pay her bills. And although it does allow her to flex her muscles as a photographer, forcing her into difficult positions and requiring creative solutions to the problems she faces, she decides one day that it’s time for a change.
Not sure which part of her life will give most easily– the job she hates, or the boyfriend she doesn’t love and who she’s sure is cheating on her– she decides to go out camping alone one weekend. While she’s there, she plans to work on honing her wildlife photography skills, bulking up her portfolio in the process, in the hopes that it may lead her to the better life she’s been hoping for.
But if change is what she came out searching for, nothing could have prepared her for the absolutely seismic shift in her life that’s about to take place…
While she’s out vigilantly following a deer’s tracks across the forest floor, hoping for a closeup, Alicia has a close encounter with a beast of an entirely different nature– one which, before now, she wasn’t entirely sure existed.
Humongous, bat like wings, a tail like that of the most powerful serpent, and the body of a dinosaur. All wrapped up in one unbelievable package– a dragon, that most fearsome of mythical creatures, believed to be nothing but a rumor or, at the very least, disappeared so long from the annals of time that the very sight of it leaves her wondering if it’s all a dream.
And that’s not even the strangest part of it…
For the creature overhead, racing through the air, dipping and diving through the clouds, is not only a dragon. But a man. A Prince.
Prince Nol, of the disgraced dragon family known as The Protectors.
The youngest of three brothers, Nol begrudges his family’s subservience at the hands of The Dark Ones– the dominant group of dragonshifters in the region, who stole away The Protectors’ throne decades ago.
Between being treated like filth by the Dark Ones, and being forced to disguise his true identity from the humans that surround him, he feels trapped in a hopeless existence. It is thus, despite strict warnings from The Dark Ones not to risk human exposure to their world, that he goes out flying on the night in question– wholly unsuspecting of the consequences that will arise from the human with her camera pointed up at the sky, and the gravity of their two very different worlds colliding…