A slip of the tongue can have deadly consequences.
◆◆�����◆◆◆The last thing Marella wants to hear is that her family is moving halfway across the ocean during her senior year. Her father's been posted as Ambassador to Pharlandzi, a rival mermaid kingdom, and no amount of crying or pleading is going to change the inevitable: Marella is leaving her school and all of her friends behind to swim in strange waters.
As an ambassador's daughter, she's expected to abide by certain codes, know all the etiquette, curtsy to the right people, and bite her tongue around others. But that tongue of hers has always gotten her in trouble, and now she's in too deep––fighting for her life deep. She doesn't know who submitted her name into the Dragonaxi Challenge, but the one thing she knows? It's death or victory, and her father didn't raise a loser. She'll come back a dragon-riding warrior, or not at all.
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With no friends, little time to prepare, and death lurking in the shadows, Marella must rely on her limited training to keep her alive.
Genre: Fantasy
Used availability for Leslie E Heath's The Dragonaxi Challenge