When Professor of Dracophilology Simon Stillfield is asked to go to far away Russia to help set up a dragon post like that in the British Isles, his first impulse is to refuse. To his knowledge, there are few dragons in Russia besides the feral Ice Dragons of Siberia. But when a disappointment in love makes him long for a change of scene, Simon, his dragon friend Lakota and familiar Janus embark on a strange adventure in a distant, largely unknown land. The Russians seem curiously reluctant to begin work on the project, and puzzles abound on all sides. Who is the mysterious young woman in the...

The year is 1811 in an England where Wizards and Witches practice their magic and dragons carry the Royal Mail. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte turns to the Jongleur, an evil mage, to further his ambition of conquering the British Isles. It is up to a young English Witch and a French emigre Wizard to thwart the black magic of the Jongleur and his unholy allies of the Unselighe Court before they succeed in ridding Britain of white magic and magicians - and making the British Isles a conquered land.

The dragons of China, ancient and wise, were angry. Not only had the dragon temples fallen into disuse with no offerings or worship, but no dragon adviser sat by the Emperor's side in the Forbidden City. And now something more terrible was happening - for both the dragons and for China itself: someone was killing dragons with magic, selling their flesh and bones for profit and stealing their pearls - the fount of all their wisdom and knowledge - even the power to fly - that they wore under their chins. Dragons controlled the weather - the rain, the wind, the very earth itself. They could raze...

India 1857 Young Witch Rosamunde DeLacey has married in haste and is repenting in leisure. Now she is on her way out to India with her familiar, the cat Sinead, to join her soldier husband who is unfortunately non-magical. Escorting her is her cousin, the Wizard Alan Stillfield, his familiar a ferret named Cathal, and dragon, Brendan. Rosamunde has secretly loved Alan all of her life, and it was to escape seeing him married to another that she so hurriedly wed. Little do they know that they travel to a land seething with rebellion and the worst of necromancy. The northern region of India,...

The Channel Islands, 1803 After the short-lived peace of Amiens, the French have recaptured the English Channel Islands again and this time the occupation will be much worse, with more death, and more destruction, for the new commander is not easy going, as had been the previous one. The Inquisition, under the leadership of a Senior Witch-Sniffer from Rome, is determined to stamp out the heresies of magic and paganism. A mad genius has invented a secret weapon that is certain to guarantee the conquest of England for Napoleon and he hopes to launch it from the Channel Isles so close to...