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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a hungry firedrake is an irritating beast. In Regency England, the small, fire-breathing dragons called draca are kept by gentry as pampered status symbols. But Elizabeth Bennet has no time to pamper the Bennets’ firedrake. With an ailing father, she must manage Longbourn and dodge disastrous marriage proposals while concealing a dangerous secret: she can speak to draca. When a beloved sister falls ill, marriage and money no longer matter. Aided by her brilliant sister Mary, Elizabeth hunts for a cure in the lost lore of dragons.

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom Awkward, plain, and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favor not...