Before Times

Before Times collects three prequel stories to the Valkyrie Bestiary series. Each one is set between one and fifty years before Dragons Don't Eat Meat, the first book in that series.

The opening tale unfolds in the final hours of the Flood Wars, when a fae princess makes a costly sacrifice to protect the human world. The second introduces Kyra Greene, who controls pests rather than exterminating them, a distinction she must keep clear because her pests might be pixies or dragons. When her young business faces ruin, she accepts a job that blurs the boundaries of her trade. The third finds Kyra facing a rock troll and meeting a man who stays on her mind for three hundred and twenty-one nights. The story also includes a campfire gathering with satyrs and the search for one small, lost cephalopod.

Across these stories, Kyra and Leighna Icewolf, Queen of the Fae, each learn to make their way along unfamiliar paths in a world where magic is the only law.