The Boutique
Author: Clair Louise Coult
Category: Young Adult
Published: 2013
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Read OnlineWhen Alison closes up her fashion boutique for the night, a chance encounter with Peter, the security guard, changes her life forever.Peter is used to people looking straight through him, but when Alison engages in conversation he's faced with the dark realisation that she is just like him.A short ghost story with a heartwarming twist.Petty differences and jealousies between shires has led to raging battles with no end. Until the wizard Whitmoor concocts a potion to end all wars for good. Unfortunately he is shot by an arrow as he adds the last ingredient and falls into his cauldron to disappear for ever. But there is no stopping the spell, and a magnificent beast arises, a ferocious dragon that puts an end to the battle. But this beast has an appetite for roast cattle and a penchant for midnight runs over villages. Soon all the people of the shire are afraid to leave their huts to plow their fields and raise their animals. The shire is starving and the King's coffer is getting low. Thirty-five Knights have tried and failed to destroy the dragon, will Knight Morgan of Fairwinds be the thirty-sixth casualty?