The creature raised its bead a little and its tongue flickered out to lay a cool, shivery kiss across Tia's fingertips.
Tia's luck starts to change the moment she touches a dragon patrolling the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. At the Twenty Squares Club Tia wins every game - could the dragon have given her a magical power?
But Tia discovers her lucky gift brings great danger While the Persian army prepares to attack her home, she and her friend, Simeon, must fight their own battle. Will Tia's magic save the city - or destroy it altogether?