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Shenanigans and surprises ensue when a hyperactive middle-age businessman hears about an epidemic reaching the small island where he grew up. He immediately volunteers himself AND his bicycle courier employees to go chasing around the isle as volunteer health services personnel for the relief effort's logistics team! Meanwhile, Millie, a Drachen restaurateur and cook extraordinaire, and her half-Drachen daughter are helping to coordinate the effort island-side and anticipating the arrival of Millie's oldest, dearest friend and his oddball crew.

Young half-Drachen Rinn thought with she was going to have a nice, quiet trip to mainland to visit with her finally-reunited parents, Millie and Daavi. Now, Daavi's missing, Millie is ill, Rinn's grandmother is being an insufferable pain in the tailfeathers, strange people are lurking around outside Daavi's workshop, corporate lackeys are trying to steal prototype equipment from radio towers, a slick salesman keeps hanging around - seemingly to be helpful - and a strange girl shows up on the doorstep.

Ignoring all past experience with the term "adventure", Millie and Daavi have signed on for one. Not quite neglecting the fact she is preparing for a big promotional event at her restaurant, which dignitaries and other very important people are likely to attend, Millie dons a rather charming straw hat and joins Daavi as he runs off to a deserted, rocky, sun-bleached isle, neighboring her own.

Benedict Shade, a were-cat and collector of exotic and potentially lethal magical artifacts, arrives in Yerba City with his good buddy, Dwayne, to “collect” (some would say “steal”) an unusual dagger that is much more than it seems. Little does Shade realize that the dagger was involved in an assassination attempt with dire consequences.

Vidarr Allefar emerges from his cocoon a dremma, a species that hasn’t roamed the Realm since the Great Departure. His mental powers have grown; and so have his challenges. He must retrieve the five parts of the ancient relic, the Rod of the Dreki, said to be distributed amongst the five d’oglemann clans. His first stop is his clan’s nemesis, the Soolv Spyda. If he survives the encounter, he will have to venture across the Ice Plains…in the dead of winter…to reach the northern clans.

Early morning. A wooded clearing. The body surrounded by a conga line of head-bobbing wild turkeys. Then, Detective Rock Cobbler’s Thursday really starts to get weird.

Reeve gave up the title of 'prophet' a few years ago, when he finally succeeded in destroying his own cult from the inside out. With a little bit of help from Millie and Daavi. But now, another branch of his old church has resurfaced, and they have their sights set on one Mr. Jonas T. Welsh: Daavi's father.

Ingefær vod Renku is beset by doubts over the death of her parents and seeks to find answers in her home village. While there, her primary suspect is murdered, and she’s consigned to hunt the assassin. The situation turns deadly for the Ære Warrior as she attempts to pierce the Assassin’s Guild. Casualties abound, chief of which is her trust in her god and her order. Meanwhile, Rory Belkin chases after Valexi in Hjulstadt, the thug who hired bandits to kill him.