Prequel of the Alchemist steampunk series. What happens when a goat, a man, a woman and a baby encounter each other during a train ride?Cyrus al-Yllia certainly isn’t looking for love. Nor a wife. He’s in enough trouble as is, an illegal immigrant with a baby in a foreign land, a baby that isn’t his. So he smuggles a goat in the train – to feed the baby, of course.But the enemies that want him and the baby dead won’t leave him alone. When a woman with sad eyes, and troubles of her own, joins him, Cyrus isn’t happy. He doesn’t want a companion – he wants to survive. But he doesn’t get to choose, as the inexplicable bond between the woman and the baby pulls them together.

Girl At Christmas
Tammy is normally at her happiest at Christmas, but she’s been dumped by her long term partner, with no real