A War of Wyverns

Vivien Featherswallow is a name everyone in Britannia knows, human and dragon alike, and Viv herself cannot say who it belongs to. Some call her the Swallow, the face of a rebellion against a corrupt government and the Bulgarian dragons who have invaded.

Others know her as a brasstongue, a translator close to uncovering a new dragon language. To herself she is Viv, a girl who lost the person she loved most after working as a spy.

Viv decides to fight back. She has a machine that lets her hear what dragons think, and a diary holding clues to a dragon tongue no one has ever translated. She also carries a need to avenge the love she lost.

Her plan is to find the Hebridean Wyverns and persuade them to join the war. If she succeeds, the rebellion gains a real chance against its enemies. If she fails, it keeps working in the shadows.

A young adult fantasy and the sequel to A Language of Dragons, it makes language the main weapon in the conflict between humans and dragons. Translation may not be enough to carry Viv to victory, or to settle who she is.