Telly's Dragon: Wall Haven Chronicles Prequal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798313359342)

Eighty years before Moira met her orc, a war was waging between creatures from across the Wall and the humans who didn't want to share their land with them.

Not far from the start of the fighting, Telly Murphy was working at her parents' fur trading post in a settlement in the Illinois Territory. The oldest of five children, Telly had grown up on stories of the creatures from the other side of the Wall and loved to learn everything she could about them. But when a fur trader brought in the skins of two creatures, killed in the battle waging almost at her front door, she didn't realize her life would change forever.

When the battle finally reached the settlement she came face to face with a creature that may not actually be there to kill her...

Alias was young by dragon standards, but he still remembered what it was like when creatures from Abadeen were forced out of the human lands and the Wall that had always been an open passageway for both humans and creatures to cross was boarded up. As famine and disease plagued those on his side of the Wall, tensions between his kind and the humans grew and grew until all out war began.

As was expected, the dragon took up arms with his comrades, ready to rid the world of the greedy humans if that was what it took for his people to be free and safe. He wasn't counting on his mating instincts, which had been silent his entire hundred and fifty years, to come to life for a dark skinned human female. A human female he had just chased from her home as he and his comrades burned her settlement to the ground.

All around them creatures and humans alike fought against each other with no apparent end to the feud in sight. Can Telly forgive Alias for the acts of war and can they find a way to each other, laying the path for true peace between their people?