Lian Tanner has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, hunting for a Japanese soldier left over from the Second World War. Nowadays she lives by the beach in southern Tasmania.

What do a minch-wiggin, a child queen and an enormous magical pup have in common? They need to find the dragon that has turned their worlds upside-down . . . even if it means revealing all the secrets they want to keep hidden.