The Cradle

At long last fans of Assam & Darjeeling can read the next chapter in the story of everyone's favorite little girl lost Jee. (And if you haven't read Assam & Darjeeling yet then be advised: Here there be spoilers.) At the close of Assam & Darjeeling readers were given a brief glimpse of Jee as she approached the Winter Palace. But the path that leads her there is long and twisted with many other stories to tell along the way. The Cradle is the first of these. Jee is enjoying the new freedom that comes with being an exile from the land of the living. But she soon discovers that freedom has its share of discomforts and dangers. Caught in a torrential downpour she is taken in by a kindly old couple who it turns out have story of their own to tell. And Jee discovers yet again that things in the Underworld are not always what they seem. The Cradle begins a new cycle of stories about a little girl looking for a place that she can at last call home.