Aerimanders are extinct.
Or so the government would have you think, having centuries earlier decreed the destruction of these dragon-like creatures, whose deadly flames could level entire cities and upend world order. So when wealthy twelve-year-old chemistry student Eva Alexander unwittingly purchases the world’s last aerimander egg, she finds herself the target of the Thieves’ Union, a mysterious and dangerous organisation that orders its youngest member, thirteen-year-old orphan Dusty St. Ichabod, to steal the egg.
But Eva is no easy mark, and soon the two are forced together, driven into a maze of sinister threats, betrayals and surprises – all while fighting to keep the egg out of the hands of power-hungry Eoin Parnassus, Director of Kingdom Secrets. As the unlikely duo races against time, their fates – and that of the whole world – are at stake. Because there’s one question no-one dares to ask: What happens when the egg hatches?
