Product Description

The Emerald Dagger, book 2 of the Daradawn series, finds Kelsey back in San Francisco seven years later, trying to pull herelf back together after leaving the love of her life in Daradawn.

She decides to back through the rift one more time before marrying her new love, Duncan.

When she returns she finds Dirkk has resurfaced and is again threatening Daradawn with an even more powerful evil.

She and Regan must pull together the diverse population of Daradawn to triumph over this new danger.

In the midst of all of this turmoil, one sister renews her love and the ohter finds happiness with her lost love.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2041546 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 341 pages

Review
Even more magnificently detailed than the first in the series, The Emerald Dagger is exciting, heart rending, and enchanting. -- Amanda Killgore for Huntress Reviews

Fans of powerful sword and sorcery tales will want to read the tremendous, The Emerald Dagger. -- Affaire de Coeur

Regan and Kelsey are take-charge, passionate heroines. The spellbinding romance and dark adventure left me eagerly anticipating more. -- Susan Mitchell, Romatic Times Magazine

About the Author
Barbara M. Hodges lives in Nipomo, CA. She shares her life with her husband Jeff, two basset hounds, and a sassy cat.

The Blue Flame is her first novel. Since then she has written, The Emerald Dagger, the second novel in the Daradawn series and The Silver Angel (Fall 2004), the third novel in the series.

Customer Reviews

The Emerald Dagger
The Emerald Dagger is the second book in the Daradawn Series. In the first book of this series, The Blue Flame, the reader is introduced to the magical world of Daradawn and its inhabitants. The reader is also introduced to four visitors to Daradawn: Kelsey Cafferty, her sister Regan, Regan's friend Ben Sampson, and Maggie the dog. These four visitors have travelled to Daradawn to our world through a magical gateway between the two dimensions. These four outsiders join forces with Queen Tessa and her allies to defeat the evil power hungry mage Dirkk.

In The Emerald Dagger, the evil mage Dirkk comes out of hiding and readies his plans for world domination once again. This time, through a powerful demon confined within a magical dagger, Dirkk intends to enslave various races and use them against Queen Tessa and her allies. With this plan accomplished, Dirkk then intends to take Regan as his Queen, with the two of them ruling all of Daradawn. Once again, the inhabitants of Daradawn call upon their allies from our world, those living in Daradawn and those coming to visit the magical world as the mystical rift between our worlds opens once again.

The Emerald Dagger, like the preceding book The Blue Flame, is beautifully written, contains wonderfully well developed characters, and so action filled that it defies the reader to put down the book before the story is read. If anything, the reader will find The Emerald Dagger is better and even more compelling than the first book of this series, mainly due to the fact that the reader has already bonded with the characters and already understands the nature of this magical world. Though I highly recommend reading The Blue Flame before reading The Emerald Dagger, book two of this series is completely self-contained and the reader need not read the first book to comprehend what is happening.