Title: Dragon's Eye
Author: James A Hetley
ISBN: 0-441-01372-4
Publisher: Penguin Books
Rating: Excellent
Review by: Tiffany Martin

A small town on the Maine coast where magic exists. A Dragon tied to one of the founding families. A house that allows no harm to come to the women residing within its walls.

Gary Morgan finds himself, at the age of 17, the sole heir of the Morgan legacy of piracy, secrets, and The Dragon. He finds that he will have to work with the Haskell Witch when his father and sisters are kidnapped and his mother is killed by a brujo that is after the powers of The Dragon. In the process he learns that his "dead uncle" Ben is his real father and both of them learn that Caroline, the next Haskell Witch, is Ben's daughter.

Hetley delves into magic in a fashion that sheds new light on the power it really creates. He also shows lesbianism in the form it truly is - love between two people so strong that would do anything for each other, including dying.

Hetley's characters are so well developed that you can't help to come to like bumbling Caroline and young but so brave Gary and come to hate the brujo Antonio. This is definitely a new twist on a magical story with it taking place in the here and now.

In honesty, the book starts a bit slow and I had my doubts about whether I would get into it or not. Let's just say that I finished it in two days and I can't wait to get my hands on the sequel, Dragon's Teeth.