A Child of Time

To pull up a seat at the game of life, one must strive to learn the rules.

A challenge comes to those in learning:

Everyone's rules are different.

Briyan's life is beautiful. A tower, where the Natural Philosophy of alchemy is studied; a palace, which houses both duty and family; and an island, where a princess knows the land, and is part of it. She must abandon all of it when every child's (and many adults') worst fear ap- pears in her garden, in a handbasket-a faerie. At the mercy of such a...