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A local author held a book signing at the Post Thursday in support of the latest release in her “Taming the Dragon Series.” Longtime Hatter Helen Webster worked as an anger management therapist for 13 years and she says she has shaped her series on events she encountered while working as a therapist. “I was an anger management therapist for 13 years working with extreme violence for all of that time in Calgary,” she said. “There was a lot of pain shared over the years and I took that pain, wrote it down and turned it into a story.” Her newest book in the Taming The Dragon Series, There is no Rainbow, follows a fictional 12-year-old named Jason and the violent experiences he and his siblings are put through because of his father. She says she hopes people can learn from the book. “I hope people get an understanding that there is no rainbow or magic cure to make Jason or his siblings well,” she said. “Kids suffer a terrible impact growing up in homes like this and will have to deal with that their whole lives.” Webster said without her time as a therapist, she would not be an author writing today. “Without my 13 years of experience as a therapist I wouldn’t be in this field,” she said. “My first book was also based around anger management, so without my previous experience I would not have done these books.” Webster says she has no plans to stop her series and said she hopes to begin writing a third book based around the fictional family’s father, which she will begin early next year.