The Last Ember: The Aerimander Chronicles Book 1

The breakout dragon fantasy of 2025 is now available in paperback!Impossible Creatures meets The Mysterious Benedict Society in this buzzy children’s fantasy duology about the hunt for a rare dragon-like creature.Aerimanders are extinct. Or so the government would have you think. Centuries ago, the Kingdom of Glaucus decreed the destruction of these dangerous, dragon-like creatures whose deadly flame could level entire cities and upend world orders.But when twelve-year-old Eva Alexander, a wealthy chemistry student in the city of Porttown, walks into a fashionable department store and walks out (accidentally) with the world’s last aerimander egg, everything changes.Suddenly, Eva is the target of unwanted attention-including from the Thieves’ Union, a mysterious organisation with a rebellious streak and fingers in every pie in Porttown.The Union orders its youngest member, the orphaned dairy delivery boy Dusty St.Ichabod, to steal the egg from Eva. Which is far easier said than done. Wh