Lian Tanner has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, hunting for a Japanese soldier left over from the Second World War. Nowadays she lives by the beach in southern Tasmania with a large fluffy tomcat called Harry-le-beau.

Book 2 in the thrilling new Rogues trilogy. Duckling and Pummel are trying to take the Young Margrave to a place of safety, far away from the dreadful Harshman. But they are captured by slavers and taken to the salt mines, to work night and day until they die. Meanwhile, the Harshman has broken out of the Strong-hold, and is on their trail...