Ormdale, Yorkshire, 1910
Una Worms thinks nothing of soothing a feverish wyvern or putting out a salamander fire, and she is never, ever late for tea.
At only 19, the youngest daughter of England’s famous dragon-keeping family is also the one who keeps life at the Royal Menagerie of British and Foreign Dragons running smoothly.
But when a mysterious villain infiltrates the menagerie—and even worse, Una’s prodigal sister Violet appears unannounced—Una’s tidy schedule is thrown into turmoil, and she will have to confront parts of her past that she would rather forget.
Meanwhile, in London, restless suffragette Penny Fairweather stumbles across a story that could accelerate her journalistic ambitions—if her irritatingly mild-mannered civil servant brother keeps out of her way. But Crispin Fairweather has ambitions of his own. Drawn into a thrilling shadow-realm of espionage, he finds himself wondering just how far he will go to establish himself there—if his sister doesn't kill him first, that is.
Next in the much-loved world of Wormwood Abbey and The Secrets of Ormdale comes a new series, The Gilded Age of Dragons, set in a dazzling era where motor-cars and airships compete with mythical creatures for the heart of a generation.
