Bolstered by her friend, Kate Hazel, a mortal woman with hidden magic of her own, as well as an assortment of Faerie folk, she tackles the job and earns her title.ĭrink Down the Moon takes place a few years later.

But Jacky finds she has more pluck than she ever realized. To her bemusement, she finds that she is now the Jack, charged with retrieving the horn that controls the Wild Hunt and rescuing the Laird of Kinrowan's daughter from the giant Gyre the Elder and the Unseelie Host. In a heartbeat, Jacky has crossed the line into the realm of Faerie. But this is no ordinary gang - it's the Wild Hunt, and their victim was a hob, one of the fiaina or wild, solitary sidhe unaligned with either Seelie or Unseelie Courts. Distraught when her boyfriend leaves her for good, she wanders through the streets of Ottawa and runs smack into trouble.Īt first, she believes that she has witnessed a murder committed by a gang of bikers, and indeed she has. He's a she, a 19-year-old named Jacky Rowan, and there's nothing bold or brave about her. In the first book, Jack the Giant-Killer, the 'Jack' of the title isn't quite what you'd expect. Tor has just released a trade paperback edition under its Orb imprint, and according to the Tor Web site: 'Once a title becomes an Orb book, it's our intention to keep it in print as an Orb trade edition.' Certainly, this is good news for everyone.

Jack of Kinrowan is an omnibus volume containing Jack the Giant-Killer (Ace, 1987) and Drink Down the Moon (Ace, 1990).

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