A Gothic Romance of Venice

Taming the Dragon

a novel by Grey Valley & K. Keller

A Venetian mask with a dragon coiled beneath it

Twenty-two years married to a man the world cannot read — and now the Signora of a sinking palazzo on the black water of Venice. Dreams arrive like tides. Something pale has waited at the edge of her sleep since she was a child — and the husband she has loved for two decades is not what he appears.

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Chapter I
The House We Unmade
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Chapter II
The Hours Before
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Two new chapters every other Friday.

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The Chapters

Free to read, in order, as the tide brings them in.

Released
Monsterland
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The House We Unmade
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The Hours Before New
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Coming with the tide
Ca' Luna Nera
With the tide
The Sanctuary
With the tide
The Door He Cannot Hold
With the tide
The Liar
With the tide
…and the story descends from there.