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The orphaned Dushma lives in the arch of a railway viaduct with her unsympathetic Aunt Megan. Officially a non-person, by law she should be in the workhouse.

 
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Instead she spends her time exploring the tangle of streets beneath the viaduct and the outlandish, labyrinthine St Gotha's Cathedral, occasionally accompanied by the glamorous truant and shoplifter Alison Catfinger.

When police raid her home, Dushma flees. Rescued by a small band of fellow outcasts, she finds refuge in the forgotten passageways of the city's underground railway. But hardly has she begun to discover the truth about her new companions than she is once again running for her life. And this time she's not only threatened by the sadistic Detective Inspector Rapplemann, but also by the elidra, the lethal, unpredictable electric dragons that guard the tunnels.

Electric Dragon was originally published as Viaduct Child. It's available from Amazon and elsewhere, and has been translated into Polish (Na gigancie) and Portuguese (O esconderijo subterrâneo).