Mary Kirchoff is an editor and author whose fantasy and young adult novels have been translated into more than nine languages. She has written one short story and six novels set in the Dragonlance universe, including the Defenders of Magic trilogy, Wanderlust, and Kendermore. Aside from writing, she has edited books for Wizards of the Coast and Tor Books. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Beloved kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot encounters marriage, magic, monsters, and mayhem in this Preludes novel set before the War of the Lance
While carousing at the Inn of the Last Home, carefree kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot is snared by a bounty hunter whose assignment is to ensure the return of the light-fingered escape artist to his homeland. It seems his beloved Uncle Trapspringer is being held prisoner by the venerable council of elders-until Tas honors Kender marriage tradition, that is.

But before he can say "I do," Tasslehoff's betrothed pulls a disappearing act of her own. The race is on to see who gets dragged to the altar first. But not only must Tas dodge matrimony, he must elude a capricious wizard set on pickling one of every creature on Krynn, cheer up the last existing woolly mammoth, foil a most determined and deadly assassin, and-in the end-save Kendermore.