Written in the language of the time and narrated by acclaimed Shakesperean actor Nigel Gore, The Dragons of the Storm follows directly upon the events in The Weight of Smoke.

Captain John Smith has been stabbed by a stingray and falls deathly ill. The old alchemist and mariner, Jonas Profit, doctors his wound, and to ease Smith's suffering tells of the daring circumnavigation of the world by Francis Drake, 1577-1580. A masterful interweaving of all the elements that contributed to the birth of the British Empire.