John Patterson epub The Golden Lion: Book Nine of The Dragons of the Flagstone Isles Series

As the wild tribes of Dal Riata wage a futile war against the overwhelming Gholscari invaders, the noble Agrians build their War College even as the Queen builds her war fleet. A new territory opens in the east, as a little white lie invented on the fly by Admiral Flim'n N'Gee yields the biggest, bloodless land acquisition in Esmythian history. The mysterious, powerful Crown of Fangs is found in the ashes of Lockeshire, and its discovery sparks a return to Alfred's Camp for the warrior chieftains of Dal Riata. A new challenge faces the compassionate Agrians, as the Tolsom Brothers lead them on a desperate sea-bound rescue mission, to save a harried mass of fugitives fleeing from Gholscari marauders, bent on their destruction. The Straits are full of skulkers, marauders and slave-hunters, no place is safe from the greedy Gholscari pirates who swarm in after Supremacy's acquisitions, to mercilessly harvest a bitter bounty human of suffering and stolen wealth. From the southern shores of Southwest M'Rovys to the confluence of the Roaring River and the mysterious Perforata, the war plans and schemes of the Queen of Fire and her eldest son, the Prince Who Rules Kings, begin to take shape.