Part of Series
The third novella in the Pittsburgh Backyard & Garden arc. This story takes place immediately after the events of Chased by Monsters in July while Tinker is still being held prisoner by the oni. Jane Kryskill has so many secrets to keep. There’s the huge one; that Pittsburgh is being besieged by beings from another world, unleashing giant monsters upon the unsuspecting city. There’s the secret that she found and rescued not only her baby sister—kidnapped eight years earlier—but the little tengu boy, Joey Shoji, nephew of the Chosen One. And on the personal side, she’s keeping her upcoming marriage to Taggart from Hal Rogers, star of Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden. Now Nigel Reid has dropped yet another secret on the team—somewhere in the city is a box filled with baby dragons, locked in a magical sleep.
Author
John W. Campbell Award Winner Wen Spencer resides in paradise in Hilo, Hawaii with two volcanoes overlooking her home. Spencer says that she often wakes up and exclaims "Oh my god, I live on an island in the middle of the Pacific!" This, says Spencer, is a far cry from her twenty years of living in land-locked Pittsburgh. The Elfhome series opener, Tinker, won the 2003 Sapphire Award for Best Science Fiction Romance and was a finalist for the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Fantasy Novel. Wolf Who Rules, the sequel to Tinker, was chosen as a Top Pick by Romantic Times and given their top rating of four and a half stars. Other Baen books include space opera thriller Endless Blue and Eight Million Gods.
