Odd-jobs man Jack Bywater can turn his hand to anything--it says so on his card.  With his skills in carpentry, magic, and animal husbandry, and his pet dragon Pepper, he's welcome in the village of Tolchester.

But Jack has a secret that keeps him moving from town to town no matter how badly he'd like to settle in one place: he's pursued by a sultan's curse, and if it catches up to him he could die.

Not to mention that the local fairies are overrun with magic-eating unicorns, someone's using a plague of wasps to search for the long-lost Crown of Britain, the Ladies' Society for Assistance to Ghosts wants Jack to help the spirit of a murdered abbot--and Jack has fallen in love.

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