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Ordinary lives.
Extraordinary
circumstances.

JS Aldridge writes The Draco Chronicles — novels about friendship, ambition, faith and a planet under strain, set in a 1990s London that hasn't quite noticed the old world never left. The magic is real. It is not the point.

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The cast of The Draco Chronicles gathered in a Soho pub, holding copies of Order of Draic and The Draco Grimoire THE CARPENTER'S ARMS, SOHO
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Friendship

The people who show up when it costs them something.

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Power

Who gets to keep it, and what it takes from them.

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Envy

What ordinary people want, and what they'll do for it.

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Faith

Old belief in a country that thinks it's stopped believing.

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The Planet

What we're doing to it, and what's noticing.

The Draco Chronicles

Two books. One London.

Set across 1990s Britain — Fleet Street newsrooms, Westminster corridors, a Soho pub that's seen everything, and a Welsh farmhouse that's seen more.

Book One · Feb 2024
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Order of Draic

1990s London

Amy Davies is looking forward to life after university — until fate upends her future and her family's farm in Wales. Home secretary Peter Blackwood is juggling family life and a personal tragedy. Fleet Street hack William Anker is chasing his next tabloid sensation with the help of a retired detective turned private eye. And a Merlin-concocted scheme, over a millennium in the making, is about to catch up with all of them.

"A magical journey with interconnected storylines... fans of Ben Aaronovitch and Benedict Jacka will find much to love."

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Book Two · Jul 2026
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The Draco Grimoire

The Draco Chronicles, Book Two

A year on from the events that changed her life, Amy Davies is no longer just the keeper of Britain's oldest secret — she is one of the country's most closely guarded assets, her rare gifts quietly at the service of those who protect the realm.

Elsewhere, a new power is stirring — one who understands the old magic as well as Amy does, and who answers to no order, no oath, and no one. In a remote Highland community, a quiet congregation is being drawn into something far stranger than faith. Across Britain, the natural order is beginning to fray in ways no one can yet explain.

As old debts come due and new alliances form in the shadows, Amy must decide how far she is willing to go — and what she is prepared to lose — to protect the people and the secrets she has sworn to guard.

The Draco Grimoire continues the story begun in Order of Draic, weaving hidden history, ancient magic and modern power into a tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and the cost of what we choose to protect.

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What It's Actually About

Not fantasy-romance.

Adar has a personality. He has a human form, and there's more to say about him than the books have said yet — but the magic sits under the story, not on top of it.

01Ordinary people, thrown into extraordinary circumstances, with no training for either.
02Friendship tested by distance, ambition, and things that can't be explained.
03Envy and power — who has it, who wants it, what it costs to keep.
04Religion in a country that thinks it's moved past needing it.
05The human damage to the planet — and who, or what, has been keeping score.
061990s Britain — Britpop, tabloids, teletext, a country mid-reinvention.

The Cast

A journalist, a home secretary, a landlord who knows everything, a girl who never asked for any of it.

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The Soundtrack

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JS Aldridge
About the Author

Writing ordinary people into extraordinary trouble.

JS Aldridge writes The Draco Chronicles — novels set in a 1990s Britain thick with its own cultural memory, where the supernatural runs quietly underneath ordinary lives rather than announcing itself. It's a story about friendship, ambition, faith and power as much as it is about the thing that connects them all.

Order of Draic, book one, was published in February 2024. The Draco Grimoire, book two, followed in July 2026.

Series
The Draco Chronicles
Setting
1990s Britain
Book One
Feb 2024
Book Two
Jul 2026
A Note on Process

On Process

The Draco Chronicles is written by me. Every word, every plot decision, every late-night rewrite, every typo I didn't catch until it was too late — that's mine. Nobody and nothing else has written a sentence of these books.

What you see and hear elsewhere on this site — the character portraits, the cover art, some of the video — is a different matter. I use AI tools to help realize the visual world of the series: faces for people who don't exist, places I can't otherwise show you, a bit of fun with the format. That's craft support, not authorship.

The distinction matters to me, so I wanted to say it plainly rather than leave you to guess: AI helps me show you this world. It did not write it.

Watch closely — a few familiar faces make a cameo.