Colony of Magic

Primrose Pevensey will do almost anything to put food in her little brother's stomach. Unable to find a job, she steals to survive, and has little shame in doing it. When the siblings are arrested for thieving, they're sent to an overseas penal colony, miles away from the world they knew.

Primrose vows to kill the man who arrested them: an uppity soldier named Frederick Whitley. He makes Prim's life miserable, and she despises him more and more with every encounter.

After an arduous voyage, they arrive at a penal colony of smoke and rubble. The island Natives have dragons, and they'll reduce the world to ash before they'll surrender their home.