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Things Are Going to Happen
Husband Wants Hotwife follows a happily married woman who tests the strength of her marriage when she explores the eroticism of the “hotwife” world. Where did the idea for this book come from?
The idea came from the first paragraphs. As soon as those words “I told him I couldn’t do it” stuck in my head, the remainder of the book fell into place.
Emma’s voice is very conversational, and the pacing moves quickly from one major scene to the next. How did you shape her narrative voice and rhythm to keep readers engaged?
How to explain this? When I’m writing, it’s as though the characters have taken over and I’m merely recording their stories. In Emma’s case, it’s clear from the first page that her hormones have taken over. She’s eager and open to sex, and as a good-looking woman with a kinky husband, things are going to happen.
Consent and communication are central to the story, especially in high-intensity situations — what real-world influences shaped how you portrayed the dynamics in Chris and Emma’s relationship?
Communication is key to any successful marriage, but it’s absolutely essential in a hotwife union where the possibilities of jealousy and misunderstandings are so close to the surface.
Can we look forward to more books from you soon? What are you currently working on?
I just released Creating a Cuckold, and I’m working on a new novella that will take a unique track. Below is the blurb for Creating a Cuckold: Even though it scared him, Brad wanted his beautiful wife, Isabella, to cheat on him. He planned always to leave her unfulfilled, then to introduce her to his friend Mike as a test. He knew Mike had a way with women, but Brad wasn’t ready for the hold Mike soon had on Isabella. It wasn’t long before he discovered that his wife was being shared at work, and that she was a size queen.
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We could hear them going at it upstairs as I made fresh coffee for us in the kitchen. My body was humming like a cord stretched tight for too long. I’d put on a long housedress, but my husband Chris was sitting naked at the table.
“We need to talk,” he said.
I turned to look at him, thinking, “Oh, no.”
“How do you feel about all the things we’ve done today?” He started.
My thoughts went from “Oh, no” to “No way!” I saw nothing good coming from this conversation.
“I don’t know,” I said while attempting to look busy. “How do you feel about it?”
What a chickenshit I was. I was happy to be wearing the old housedress, which covered everything but my head, feet, and hands. It felt like a layer of flimsy armour.
“Did it turn you on?” Chris asked.
What a stupid question! I was still wet down there, and I could feel my lady parts vibrating. So, what did I say?
“Yeah, kinda. What about you?” I needn’t have asked. Chris was sporting a magnificent boner.
“I got excited watching you with her, and now I’m wondering if the same thing would happen if I watched you with another guy.” Chris was so upfront about it that he just blew me away with his honesty.
“How would you feel about watching me with another woman?” There it was, Chris had asked the magic question, the question I suspected was the real reason for his eagerness to share me. He wanted to get himself some strange.
“Nope,” I said. “That’s not happening. You’re mine, exclusively.”
I was happy to see Chris smiling. Happy, but confused. “Why are you smiling?” I asked.
“It’s what I hoped you would say. I don’t want another woman. I just want to share you and enjoy the pleasure it gives me.”
The next day, Chris asked a question that surprised me, and that’s not easy for him to do. I pride myself on being able to anticipate him. I believe all wives in successful marriages possess this skill or something similar. After a while together, you can anticipate where your significant other is usually going. But not this time.
“What would you think of us joining a sex club?”
The Fragility of Belief
Abducted follows a 16-year-old who is abducted onto an alien warship, where she must use the deadly training she knows to fight through a biological nightmare and save her best friend. Where did the idea of a living alien warship come from?
A boring answer, but it originally grew out of trying to solve a story-mechanic problem. I knew I wanted the alien ship to be in Earth’s atmosphere in present and flashback timelines, as opposed to deep space, and I needed a plausible reason for that to be a necessity. The ship being powered by Oxygen provided the answer which eventually led me to making it a living organism. Once that had unlocked, I kept finding organic ways to fold the concept into the story, eventually tying it directly to the aliens’ search for a cure. In the end I think it provided a really unique backdrop for the story and opens interesting questions about the world beyond Earth in the context of the novel.
Abigail isn’t a “chosen one” in a traditional sense of hero novels. How did you shape her personality and her character arc?
I’ve always been more interested in everyman-type heroes than in chosen ones, so I shaped Abigail in that mold. At the same time, I gave her skills and experiences from her past that provide a foundation, enabling her to confront the situation she finds herself in.
One of the central themes of the novel is the fragility of belief, which manifests in different ways for each character. Abigail’s arc centers on learning to believe in herself. Self-belief can be difficult for adults to sustain, and it’s even more challenging for teenagers. I was drawn to the idea of someone whose life seemed to be moving in a clear direction suddenly being thrown wildly off course—shattering her confidence in the process—and then struggling to gather the pieces and put herself back together.
If you look at the three main characters, this becomes the throughline of the story. Harris begins the novel fully believing his father’s story and holding, deep down, an unshakable conviction that his mother is still alive. He ends the novel with those beliefs confirmed. Abigail starts the novel having lost her self-belief, gradually regains it—albeit shakily—and finishes the story fully assured of who she is. Taylor, by contrast, begins the novel confident in himself, his worldview, and in Abigail; by the end, all of that has shattered. His arc is almost the inverse of Abigail’s, which ultimately leads him to make the decision he does. All of that feels inherently relatable to me.
The friendship between Abigail and Harris anchors the story. Why center on loyalty?
I’ve always loved the trope of best friends who are secretly in love with each other. I’m also drawn to stories in which the loyalty forged in an early bond is tested as the characters grow up and their circumstances change.
If Abigail’s father hadn’t made the choices that knocked her off course, I think her relationship with Harris would have evolved far less dramatically—because the detour with Taylor likely wouldn’t have happened. The domino effect of those decisions felt like a strong starting point for the story and something that could organically thread its way through the novel. Abigail’s pull toward her loyalty to Harris is tied to her longing for a time when her life was simpler, and perhaps to a purer version of who she once was. I believe she has been in love with him all along. At the same time, her relationship with Taylor may have changed her in fundamental ways. For Harris, loyalty lies at the heart of his struggle—torn between wanting to be with Abigail and needing closure about his mother. In that situation, where should his loyalty rest? That tension is what makes the question so compelling to me, and I’m curious how readers will feel about the decisions he makes.
Can you tell us more about where the story and characters go after book one?
Abducted ends with a ticking clock: three months to prepare for a rescue mission to the alien planet. In Infiltrated, the second book in The Beast’s Burden Chronicles, that mission finally unfolds. Readers will discover what Charlotte has been doing since Donovan’s escape—and how her actions reshape her dynamic with Harris. We’ll also get a glimpse into Phaust and Marvus’s home life, and see where they fit within the broader society of their world. Abigail and Taylor will be forced to join forces, with Abigail single-mindedly determined to rescue her best friend and Taylor striving for redemption. And it’s possible that one of the characters we glimpsed at the end of Abducted isn’t who they seem… Hopefully, it won’t take me another decade to write the next book.
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A SHIP FULL OF ALIENS TOOK HER BEST FRIEND. THEY SHOULD’VE LEFT HER ON EARTH.
Abigail Ashby was raised to be a weapon by a dad convinced the world was on the brink of collapse. Then, inexplicably, he forced her into early retirement—aka high school.
These days, Abigail’s only battle is defending Harris, her outcast best friend who swears his parents were abducted by aliens. She’s secretly sure he’s delusional—right up until his bedroom explodes in amethyst light.
They wake up aboard the Beast’s Burden, an interstellar warship lurking above their town. Its leader, a sadistic warlord, seizes Harris as his prize, while Abigail slips away in the chaos—overlooked, underestimated.
Until she kills an alien to survive.
Now, hunted through the ship’s living corridors, Abigail must decide: retreat into the shadows, or unleash the lethal training she buried to wage a one-girl war and save everything she’s ever known… Because Harris isn’t just a hostage. He’s the trigger for humanity’s extinction.
The Weight of 100% Perfection
A Child’s Dream centers around a girl who repeatedly dreams that her Appalachian community builds a silver sled for children and Santa and his elves as they face a mysterious plague. Where did the idea for this story come from?
I was inspired by my own dream while visiting a friend who lives in Niagara Falls, and imagining people with many of their own tools coming together to build a sled.
Why was the theme of second chances an important one to incorporate into your storyline?
Absolutely! As young people can feel fearful about their future and the risks they face, the weight of 100% perfection can be crushing when those plans do not work out as intended. Even when we get the air knocked out of us like a football player, we take our breaks but get back on the field, and that’s our second chance for our Super bowl win.
Where did you get the inspiration for Krystal’s traits and dialogue?
Krystal’s traits are those of that friend we have who loves laughter and pranks, but in a pleasant way, you don’t know what she’ll do next. Shuffling her feet to create static electricity, she’ll probably shock you. Lol. Mixed with some middle child energy.
Can we look forward to more children’s books from you soon? What are you currently working on?
Absolutely, it’s in the works, and it’ll also be focused on action and adventures for young adults and teens, and a mix of silly and serious. After all, hopefully we can all have a lot more silly in life that we all know comes with seriousness.
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A Sense of Agency
In We Are as Gods, you present the idea that technological advancements have given ordinary people godlike powers and offer a psychological survival guide. Why was this an important book for you to offer readers?
For the past decade, Pete and I have been writing about exponential technologies and the massive opportunities they create. What became clear over time is that the story isn’t just technological, it’s psychological. The tools we now possess are extraordinary. AI, robotics, biotech, advanced materials, planetary-scale sensors—these are capabilities that, even a few decades ago, would have sounded like mythology. Yet despite living through an era of unprecedented progress, many people feel overwhelmed, anxious, and powerless.
That gap fascinated us. The problem isn’t that the future lacks opportunity; it’s that our brains didn’t evolve for the speed and scale of this moment. So the book became a kind of survival guide for the age of exponential change. We wanted to show readers both sides of the equation: first, the incredible breakthroughs happening around us, and second, the cognitive tools we need to stay grounded, resilient, and effective while navigating them. In short, the goal was to help people move from feeling like victims of the future to active participants in shaping it.
What inspired you to frame modern technology in such mythic or almost biblical terms?
Partly, it’s just the simplest way to describe what’s happening. If you look at the capabilities we now have: curing diseases with gene editing, speaking instantly across the planet, creating intelligence in machines, manipulating the climate system, those are powers that ancient cultures would have described as miracles.
Myth and religion have always been humanity’s way of grappling with forces that feel larger than us. By framing modern technology in those terms, we’re not being poetic for its own sake; we’re trying to help people feel the magnitude of the shift we’re living through.
But there’s another reason. Myths are also about responsibility. In almost every mythic tradition, when humans gain extraordinary power, the real question becomes: do we have the wisdom to use it well? That’s exactly the moment we’re in right now. Technology is accelerating incredibly fast, and the real challenge is making sure our judgment, ethics, and emotional maturity keep pace.
Do you think the biggest opportunity of this era is technological or psychological?
Technologically, the opportunity is enormous. The convergence of AI, biotechnology, robotics, and advanced energy systems is unlocking solutions to problems that have plagued humanity for centuries: poverty, disease, energy scarcity, and access to information. The tools are extraordinary.
But psychologically, we’re not fully prepared for them.
Our brains evolved to survive in small tribes on the savannah. They’re optimized for short time horizons, local threats, and limited information. Today we’re navigating a world of global networks, exponential change, and constant cognitive stimulation. That mismatch creates confusion and fear.
So the real opportunity of this era is psychological adaptation. Can we train attention? Can we regulate emotion? Can we cultivate curiosity instead of anxiety when faced with change? If we can upgrade our mindset to match the tools we’ve built, the possibilities are extraordinary. If we don’t, we risk mismanaging the very breakthroughs that could make the world better.
The final section shifts toward practical tools for resilience, attention, and meaning. Why was it important to end the book with personal strategies rather than just big ideas?
Because ideas alone don’t change behavior.
You can fill a reader’s head with amazing stories about AI breakthroughs or revolutionary technologies, but if they close the book and still feel overwhelmed, you haven’t really helped them. We wanted to leave readers with a sense of agency.
That’s why the final section focuses on tools: things like attention management, cultivating awe, pursuing grand challenges, and building resilience. These are not abstract concepts. They’re trainable skills rooted in neuroscience and psychology.
The larger message is simple: you don’t get to sit this era out. The future isn’t something that happens somewhere else. It’s being built right now by entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, and citizens all over the world. If we want that future to be wise, fair, and meaningful, we need people who are psychologically equipped to participate.
So we end the book where the real work begins, with the reader.
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In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: “We are as gods—and we might as well get good at it.” Half a century later, that prophecy has come true.
We can rewrite genes, edit embryos, build artificial minds, extend life, and terraform worlds. The old miracles—omniscience, omnipresence, even resurrection—are becoming standard operating procedure. But the real question isn’t whether humanity can play god. It’s whether we can do it wisely.
In We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler—bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold—return with a sweeping exploration of our species’ next great transformation. Blending hard science with vivid storytelling, they chart humanity’s ascent from scarcity to superabundance—and the psychological, ethical, and existential challenges that come with it.
Across breakthroughs in AI, robotics, genetics, longevity, and consciousness research, they reveal a paradox at the heart of progress: as our external power expands, our inner resilience must evolve to match. Abundance without meaning leads to collapse. Intelligence without wisdom leads to extinction. To thrive in a world of everything, everywhere, all the time, we must learn to wield our godlike powers with humility, creativity, and flow.
Equal parts warning and invitation, We Are As Gods is a map for flourishing in the exponential century. Because the future won’t be built by those who fear what’s coming, but by those who know how to turn chaos into creation.
Abundance is here. Are you ready?
Modern Medicine
Doctor AI examines the failures of modern healthcare and proposes a bold future where intelligent digital health agents help rebuild trust, empower patients, and deliver a new model of care called Health 4.0. Was there a particular moment in your career when you realized the healthcare system needed fundamental change?
It wasn’t one moment. It was a pattern I saw over many years practicing medicine—working with surgeons, clinicians, and hospital staff during COVID to maintain surgical services, and later inside Johnson & Johnson in global medical technology.
As a surgeon, I witnessed how extraordinary modern medicine can be. We can reopen blocked arteries, remove tumors, and save lives in situations that would have been fatal a generation ago.
But I also saw something troubling: many of the diseases we treat in hospitals have been developing quietly for years before anyone intervenes.
Our system is designed to react to a crisis rather than protect health.
That realization stayed with me. Doctor AI grew out of a simple question: what would healthcare look like if we designed the system around protecting health instead of reacting to illness?
What do you see as the most serious structural failure in American healthcare today?
The most serious structural failure is that the system rewards the treatment of illness rather than the preservation of health.
Nearly every incentive—financial, regulatory, and operational—is aligned around events: diagnoses, procedures, hospitalizations. Yet most major diseases develop over long biological trajectories before symptoms appear.
As a result, we invest enormous resources in rescue medicine while systematically underinvesting in the earlier stages where prevention and trajectory management could change outcomes.
This misalignment also erodes trust. Patients feel the system is reacting to problems rather than helping them stay healthy. Clinicians feel trapped in a model that measures productivity rather than meaningful health outcomes.
Until we realign incentives toward protecting health over time, technological advances alone will not solve the deeper problems.
What does the term “Health 4.0” mean, and what would a Health 4.0 system look like in everyday life for patients?
I use the term Health 4.0 because healthcare has evolved in stages.
- Health 1.0 was the era of heroic medicine—doctors working with limited tools, treating illness when it appeared.
- Health 2.0 introduced modern hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and large healthcare institutions.
- Health 3.0 brought digital infrastructure—electronic health records, imaging, and large data systems. But those systems still largely react to disease after it appears.
Health 4.0 is different.
It uses artificial intelligence, continuous data, and personalized biology to manage health as a trajectory over time.
In everyday life, that means:
- Early detection of disease risk
- Personalized prevention strategies
- AI systems helping clinicians synthesize complex information
- Less time navigating fragmented systems
- More focus on staying healthy
In short, healthcare becomes continuous and preventive, rather than episodic and reactive.Instead of interacting with healthcare primarily during moments of crisis, people would experience it as a continuous partnership that supports their health throughout life.
What risks do we face if healthcare reform does not keep pace with technological change?
Technology is moving very quickly—especially artificial intelligence. But if we simply layer new technology onto a poorly designed healthcare system, we risk making existing problems worse.
Costs could continue to rise. Trust could continue to decline. And families may still face a frightening reality in America today: that a medical encounter can threaten their financial future.
The promise of technology should be better health and affordable care.
If we design the system correctly, digital health agents and AI could help us detect disease earlier, reduce unnecessary costs, and allow families to seek care without fearing financial ruin.
But that only happens if we rethink the architecture of the system itself.
That is the central idea behind Health 4.0.
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Drawing from medicine, technology, and systems design, Doctor AI reveals how state-of-the-art digital healthcare can restore trust and autonomy to the individual while reducing systemic waste. Blackstone shows how intelligent, transparent technology can shift health upstream—from reactive rescue medicine to proactive, preventive health—creating a system that delivers better outcomes at radically lower cost.
At its core, Doctor AI reframes health as a foundation of economic and civic strength. It presents a comprehensive model for direct access to care that empowers people, strengthens nations, and redefines health as the organizing principle of
Unique Challenges
Enemy at the Helm follows the aftermath of coordinated attacks on U.S. harbors that leave investigators scrambling to determine who is responsible. Where did the idea for this novel come from?
My wife and I were departing port on a cruise ship when I saw a Defender-class U.S. Coast Guard vessel off our rear flank mirroring our heading and speed. When I casually mentioned I knew why he was there—and how to defeat it, she looked at me like I had two heads. Once I quickly fleshed out a hypothetical story, she suggested I should write it. So it was all her idea, actually!
Did you find anything in your research for this book that surprised you?
The physical dimensions of the channels and canals are publicly available and are really quite small. When you have a large ship like the ones that are commonly used today, it can easily cause a blockage of all transit. I’ve been to the Miraflores locks on the Panama Canal, and I can confirm that any long-term blockage would be disastrous. We’ve seen what happens with temporary blockages in Baltimore Harbor, the Panama Canal, and the Suez Canal. With today’s Iranian war already disrupting global economies, I hope the Yemenis don’t read this and get any ideas!
When writing characters who work inside high-pressure investigative environments, how do you make sure their personal reactions still come through?
I’m a trauma surgeon. I’ve been threatened and have had to subdue people. I also do a lot of tactical and combatives training and have practiced many of the maneuvers I described in the novel. In fact, I’m currently training for SWAT team qualification. Even though we train for and have experience in stressful situations so that muscle memory kicks in, we are still always thinking of the lives we are responsible for. Every situation has its own unique challenges. Adapting to something you haven’t seen before creates its own stress. So, it’s a matter of recalling and recording those feelings.
Can you give us a glimpse inside the next book in this thriller series?
Sure! Pursuit and Pain delves into the backstory of the people behind the original attacks, set among a backdrop of ongoing nationwide trials and tribulations and leadership challenges caused by the global trade shutdown. Favorite characters return, and new ones emerge in the international search for the ultimate mastermind.
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AMAZON BESTSELLER
The United States is in crisis.
All the major US ports have been rendered inoperable by the simultaneous sinking of large vessels in their choke points, thus halting the bulk of global trade. At first, the president thinks he has been given a gift. He always thought the United States got the raw end of the deal in international trade because of the spineless behavior of his predecessors. But with the resulting shortages of everything, he soon realizes that people in extreme situations behave irrationally, and he struggles to stay afloat himself.
Tom Jensen, a young hippie devoted more to surfing than to working, is improbably caught in the middle, drawn to fight back against the unseen forces driving the global disaster. Joining his FBI agent uncle and others working to uncover the terrorist plot, he gets an international adventure he never saw coming.
Enemy at the Helm is the provocative and engaging first installment of a new thriller series full of terrorist activity, conspiracies, and the military operations and other, less-expected efforts to stop them. This fast-paced story will keep you turning the pages and leave you eagerly anticipating the next episode in the series.
A Natural Progression
Beyond the Darkness follows a woman desperately trying to rebuild her life post-divorce, who finds herself hiring a PI to help her prove that her suitor-turned-stalker is a danger. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
After book 2, Axle needed his own story, and going from security guard to PI was a natural progression for him. The inspiration for Haley’s story is more personal. I knew someone who was stalked by her estranged husband, and what she went through was unbelievable at times.
What is the most challenging aspect of writing a series? The most rewarding?
The most challenging is keeping the storyline straight and making sure times and dates are consistent throughout the series. Also, keeping secondary characters straight and making sure you don’t interchange personalities.
The most rewarding part is being able to revisit the characters from previous books, which is kind of like visiting old friends.
Do you find yourself relating to your characters as you write?
Only the ones with careers in the medical field. My life isn’t all that interesting- 😆
Can fans look forward to another installment of the Darkness series? Where will it take readers?
Book 4 is in its second draft while I work out the ending. It follows Nicolas, Amber, and Gerard to Austria. Nicolas will get his five minutes of fame center stage with Megan, Vincent, Haley, Axle, and Reid putting in an appearance.
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Eight years later, Axle runs a PI firm in Asheville, chasing monsters in the shadows and burying the truth of what he’s become. Then Haley—his first love and the woman he never stopped wanting—walks back into his life. Fresh from a failed marriage, caring for her dying mother, and reeling from a hurricane, she now faces something far worse: a stalker the police can’t stop.
Axle takes the case, but their fragile reconnection fractures when he discovers her stalker is no longer human. And the secrets behind his own transformation are rising, threatening to destroy everything he’s built.
To save Haley, Axle must decide whether to hide the monster inside him… or risk everything by revealing it, hoping their bond is strong enough to survive what waits beyond the darkness.
Because in a world where monsters wear human faces, the most dangerous one may be the man she trusts with her life.
Fairytale Feel
The Jingu Magical Garden follows a young girl who lives inside San Antonio’s Japanese Tea Garden, who discovers a strange blue egg that hatches a tiny blue dragon, and embarks on an adventure through time. What is the most challenging aspect of writing an adventure for young readers?
The greatest challenge I faced writing THE JINGU MAGICAL GARDEN was striking the right balance between oftentimes hard-hitting historical facts and a light-hearted fantasy. My hope was that the fantasy element would help make the history lesson less pedantic and more relevant to young readers. I wanted them to be invested in Lillian’s dilemma, to understand her yearning to be like any other all-American girl, and to cheer for her as she faced discrimination and hardship with the dignity and grace her parents instilled in her and her siblings. I also strove to keep the writing style somewhat old-timey and nostalgic with the intent of creating an almost fairytale feel to the narrative—one that would highlight the magical aspect of the Japanese Tea Garden.
Can you share a little about the research that went into getting the details of the time period just right?
Four years in the making, this book of historical fiction required extensive research. I was fortunate in that there is a great deal of recorded information about both the Jingu family and the Japanese Tea Garden to draw from. I did my best to keep the historical timeline accurate, although in a few instances, I took liberties to enhance the flow of the narrative or to give a nod to one of the key characters. For instance, the scene where Lillian Jingu has a conversation with Commissioner Ray Lambert in the Bamboo Room could not possibly have taken place, for Lambert passed away in 1927 at the age of fifty-nine. But Ray was so instrumental in both creating the garden and enlisting Eizo Jingu to run its concession, I felt I owed it to him to include him somewhere in the body of the novel.
Can readers look forward to seeing more work from you soon? What are you currently working on?
I have completed the second book in my DUNE DRAGONS middle-grade fantasy series, DUNE DRAGONS and the FAIRIES of the LAKE. However, I don’t intend to release it until next fall in order to devote time to marketing THE JINGU MAGICAL GARDEN. I am currently putting the finishing touches on a painstakingly researched historical fiction novel, REDEMPTION, which is intended for adult readers.
Spanning seven decades and set against the magnificent backdrop of Lake Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes, this sweeping narrative chronicles the lives, loves, and hardships of a resilient band of pioneer families facing the challenges of an often harsh and ever-changing landscape with dignity, compassion, and an abiding reverence for the natural world that sustains them.
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Tut Tut, the wise turtle who lives in the pond, explains that it may be more trouble than she bargained for. Undeterred, Lillian takes the egg home and keeps it warm, eagerly waiting for whatever is inside it to hatch. When her little brother, Kimi, finds her with the egg, Lillian lets him in on her secret. Despite her protests to the contrary, Kimi is convinced the egg holds a puppy. Soon, the egg hatches, and a strange lizard-like creature emerges. The Jingu children name him Kokoro, and the baby dragon proves a delightful pet, but they fear that should he be discovered, he’ll be hauled away and caged like an animal in the Brackenridge Zoo. Their dilemma is solved with the discovery of a crack behind the waterfall leading to Jaloloquay, a land forgotten by time. At last, they have found a safe haven for Kokoro! But little do they know this discovery will lead to more adventures than they ever dreamed possible.
