Series
Dragonkeeper
Carole Wilkinson · 6 novels · 2003–2017
Dragonkeeper opens Carole Wilkinson's six-book series (two linked trilogies plus a prequel) set in ancient China, following Ping, a slave girl who saves an aging dragon from her brutal master and escapes with it across the country while pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter. The second trilogy (Blood Brothers, Shadow Sister, Bronze Bird Tower) continues the world with new characters and stakes. Wilkinson, an Australian author, grounds the fantasy in real Chinese history and folklore rather than an invented setting.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Dragonkeeper at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s3
- 2010s3
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Shadow Sisterdarkest
- Dragonkeeperbrightest · calmest
- Garden of the Purple Dragonmost intense