# Dragon's Kin

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- Book: [Dragon's Kin](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-mccaffrey/dragons-kin) ([Dragon's Kin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-mccaffrey/dragons-kin.md))
- Authors: [Anne McCaffrey](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-mccaffrey), [Todd J. McCaffrey](https://www.bookquiver.com/todd-john)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4812-788-7
- Published: 2012-07-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon on Pern. Mining is fraught with danger, but fortunately the camp has a watch-wher, a creature distantly related to dragons and uniquely suited to specialized work in the dark, cold mineshafts. Then disaster strikes, leaving Kindan orphaned and the camp without a watch-wher. Grieving, Kindan is taken in by the camp's new Harper and finds a measure of solace in a burgeoning musical talent . . . and in a new friendship with the mysterious Nuella. It is Nuella who assists Kindan when he is selected to hatch and train a new watch-wher, a job that forces him to give up his dream of becoming a Harper; and it is Nuella who helps him give new meaning to his life. Meanwhile, long-simmering tensions are dividing the camp. As warring factions threaten to explode, Nuella and Kindan begin to discover hidden talents in the watch-wher - talents that could very well save an entire Hold and which show them that even a seemingly impossible dream is never completely out of reach ...