The Last Cobbler

A customer is a customer, however many feet she has.Wendell Pike arrives in Thistlewick with eleven shillings, a cobbler's kit and his dead master's old wooden last. He wants honest work.What he finds is the Shod Law, which says no creature may enter the town unless it comes shod, and a lamia at the gate who has been turned away for nine years because nobody will take her order. So he kneels in the mud and measures her.Soon there is a tail boot before the moot hall, a centaur courier who will not be weighed, and a master weaver with eight legs and opinions about his stitching. There are pies, fines, a landlady with a slate of rules, and a town that does not thank him.And on the shelf sits a plain block of pearwood that is warm when nothing else is, and remembers roads that someone closed.Measure the Left Foot Twice is a cozy fantasy romance about craft, small-town law and three monster-folk women who are nobody's sidekicks. Gentle humor, real stakes, kisses only.