Let me introduce you to “The Lost Dragon”.

 In 1850’s London life can be squalid but magic exists, and faeries, and even dragons. Cora, an orphan, scrounges for survival in the muck and garbage on the shores of the Thames river. She sleeps in an abandoned shed and eats what she can find in garbage bins or what she, and the other river kids (mudlarks), can liberate from market stalls. Life is cold, damp, filthy and hopeless. Until the day she finds the dragon’s egg. The discovery launches her into a world she never knew existed. A world of challenges, dangers, magic, responsibility, heroism and friendship. Ultimately it leads to a heart wrenching moment when she must set free what she loves most. The novel follows her struggles to hatch and raise the dragon, then safely return him to the only remaining dragon colony on earth in the fjords of Norway. She is assisted by a lonely librarian, a winter-faery elder, another young mudlark, water sprites, and Norwegian villagers. The opposing forces are made up of summer faeries, humans and nature itself. A classic journey.

 Title: The Lost Dragon

Author: Kathryn Hartley

Length: 78,500 words

Genre: Young adult fantasy

Age range: 12 and up

 This little dragon is searching for a publisher at the moment. There is always the chance that the magic might shine from this delightful story and start a publisher, the writer, and all my fans on a journey that welcomes millions of readers into a new and fascinating world of imagination. It would be wonderful if that story was “The Lost Dragon”.