Books in the Streets of Flame Quartet series

It's been six years since Zaya Shearwater lost her wife and her dragon in the most dangerous race in Yemareir. She's retired from the dragon-racing circuit, supporting her family as a security guard on long-haul trade expeditions... until she comes back one night to discover that her newly adopted daughter, Vanako, has been dealing for a mob boss. Worse, she owes him a sky-high sum of money for lost product. And there's not much he wouldn't do - to Vanako, to Zaya, or to anyone in their family - to get it back. Zaya doesn't want to go back to the racing circuit. She doesn't have a trained dragon, she doesn't have anyone to ride with, and she thought she'd put those memories of pain and loss away. But even if she does ride again... after six years away from the scene, can she win what she needs in time to pay what she owes? Windburn Whiplash is the first full-length novel in the Streets of Flame Quartet. Start with Brimstone Slipstream, the novella that opens the series, and keep an eye out for Heatstroke Heartbeat and Wildfire Riptide, forthcoming!

It's the eve of the biggest dragon race in the city of Yemareir. Zaya Shearwater and her wife, Kiriki, have spent the year shooting up the rankings, and now they're favored to win. But how did a team of women from Yemareir's roughest precincts become the favorites in a sport where most winners buy their victories? Doctor of Journalism Shenireen Agama wants to know. Through interviews with Zaya, Kiriki, and the ground crew that's become their family, she begins to weave a story. Its threads are love, desperation, biology, and magic - all bound together with the early history of Yemareir, where Zaya and Kiriki's ancestors fled centuries ago to escape the pogroms of a mad king, and where the colonists resettling the ruins of an ancient city have just discovered that it is home to dragons...Brimstone Slipstream is the opening novella in the Streets of Flame Quartet, to be followed by Windburn Whiplash, Heatstroke Heartbeat, and Wildfire Riptide.