Night of the Clockwork Dragon

Wild, Wild West with mini demons and turbulent magic tempered with a dash of Victorian sensibility. And of course, a resident dragon.
Early 1850. Something hungry moves among the hulls of the abandoned ships blanketing San Francisco bay like an abandoned graveyard. The whispers spread, “There be dragons here.”
Why does Abby Crumb get the feeling she might be the dragon’s main course?