When Dragons Step Forward — Julie

Faye is a foundling whose home is a very famous inn. She loves her adopted family and her present life, but when her birth father appears one night with mysterious and hidden power in his hands, she is thrust back into her nearly forgotten past--a past that involves shadows of her parents. Faye learns that her father fights threatening creatures called Behemoths. Her father's astonishing power gives him the ability to control fire . . . or is it fire that controls him? When he leaves, Faye needs to decide if she's going to stay where she's safe or follow her father, who seeks dangerous creatures for battle. Because Faye decides to follow him, she learns about her water nymph heritage, her mother who died protecting Faye's father, and about the evil Behemoth who has a malicious vendetta against the slayer. Will Faye be safe traveling with her father? Will she regret leaving the inn and her family? Will she and her father someday meet the malevolent Behemoth? Is it possible that the father isn't the only one hiding a secret within his hands? And will Faye learn the true secret behind the voices of fire?