What do most fans of the Colorado Avalanche love? Dragons and romance, apparently.
It might strike some as odd, the coming together of these two seemingly disparate passions. Professional hockey is perhaps second only to boxing in terms of bouts that are likely to break out in melee combat, with its well-deserved reputation for knocked-out teeth, slap shots meant to hit the bread basket instead of the biscuit and scores kept as much in terms of blood-grudge as with the scoreboard. And you don't necessarily figure that fans of all that are also going to enjoy nestling into an overstuffed chair with a series of books — epic in both length and scope — about dragons and the romantic intrigue that surrounds them.
Which was probably what Colorado Springs' fan-favorite author Rebecca Yarros t