Dragon Gold: Billionaire Hoarders Find Their Match: Ten Tales of Ancient Fire, Impossible Women, and the Terrible Discovery of Feelings
What do you get when you cross a centuries-old dragon who has spent four hundred years perfecting the art of solitary hoarding with a woman who has absolutely no interest in being impressed? Apparently, you get fireworks — and not the fire-breathing kind. *Dragon Gold: Billionaire Hoarders Find Their Match* is a delightfully sharp and utterly original collection of ten paranormal romance novellas from debut author Priscilla Osei-Bonsu. Each story pairs an ancient, impossibly wealthy dragon in human form — fastidious, proud, and deeply unaccustomed to being contradicted — with a woman who is far too busy, too clever, and too professionally principled to be charmed by a mountain of gold and a good jawline. The collection opens with *The Appraisal*, in which freelance archivist Nora Okafor arrives to catalogue a private manuscript collection and within minutes dismantles both a shelf arrangement and a four-hundred-year-old curatorial philosophy. Her host, Cavendish, has not felt bewildered since the Siege of Boulogne. He is about to feel considerably more. What makes this collection exceptional is Osei-Bonsu's exquisite attention to craft. Her dragons are not metaphors — they are fully realised creatures navigating modernity with varying degrees of grace, hoarding everything from medieval manuscripts to vintage motorcycles to first-edition cookbooks. Her heroines are equally specific: archivists, engineers, marine biologists, and forensic accountants, each formidably competent in her own domain and entirely unbothered by supernatural wealth or ancient gravitas. The prose is witty, precise, and genuinely funny, with a dry observational quality that rewards careful reading.
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