Miss Percy's Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons)

Miss Mildred Percy inherits a dragon.

Ah, but we've already got ahead of ourselves...

Miss Mildred Percy is a spinster. She does not dance, she has long stopped dreaming, and she certainly does not have adventures. That is, until her great uncle has the audacity to leave her an inheritance, one that includes a dragon's egg.

The egg - as eggs are wont to do - decides to hatch, and Miss Mildred Percy is suddenly thrust out of the role of "spinster and general wallflower" and into the unprecedent...