Stories written while Walking Hadrian's wall, and in Lincolnshire.

What happens when the princess finds her champion--but he has better things to do? When Lidah, princess of Napesh, follows the advice of an oracle and seeks a champion to rescue her country, she is acting out of desperation and hope. But Galen, the champion she finds, isn't eager to leave a comfortable life and her hope seems in vain. And indeed, so it might have been had Lidah not been abducted and carried off to the underworld, and had Galen not discovered too late that his heart was not in accord with his head. But seeking a woman who is no longer in this world leads him down strange paths with stranger companions. And Lidah finds it's sometimes up to the princess to be the champion.