Lisa M Peppan

What if the Right Reverend Tilli Kuru, Iron Mage, had more than one child? And what if the psychotic Count Ghostmont has devised a plan to overthrow Good Queen Bess: a plan which involves Tilli Kuru's children and a weapon that exists only in the pages of a popular comic book? And what if Count Ghostmont has decided he wants the daughter of the Reverend Who Wasn't a Reverend to sit beside him on the throne of the Hanlish Commonwealth--specifically, the daughter who's engaged to Mykal, Lee and Jerry's son? What's a mother to do?

On the planet Geaeh, the touch of iron means excruciating death for any with a Gift set. Any, that is, except for Tilli Kuru. Recruited by the megalomaniac Yellow Wiqq for his unique Gift set, he can touch iron with impunity and even make magic with it. His mission: infiltrate the Hanlish Commonwealth to further their plans for world domination.To celebrate his first mission, he kidnaps a Wiqq woman so they can breed an iron-proof, magically-gifted dynasty. By keeping her magically silenced and pretending she's his wife while she brings his ill-gotten child to term, he secures an influential position in Hanlish Society as the Right Reverend Tilli Kuru. His congregation suspects nothing and even praises him for the care he gives his "ill" wife.Future secure, he sees his carefully laid plans nesting together like spoons in a narrow drawer.What can possibly go wrong?"

It's 1984 and a missed turn on a wet road in the wee hours of the morning plummets cab drivers Lee Taska, Jerry Young, & Ian Weitz into more than just a steep ravine. The next day finds each alone in circumstances not at all in keeping with having been at a raucous mid-November party the night before. Each is certain they have fallen prey to the twisted humor of a brother cabbie. But after finding each other, events unfold proving to them that they are on another world entirely, complete with magical abilities, shape changers, and the menacing Yellow Wiqq. How can they get home?And will they last long enough to find a way?