Cotton wakes to find her human missing.
Oliver's glasses are still beside the bed. His place beneath the blanket is empty. The small white rabbit who sleeps beside him follows his trail beyond their garden-and into a country at war.
Mouse soldiers brace sharpened pencils against invading Orcs. When Cotton helps them survive an attack, their captain asks her to lead. She needs their help to find Oliver. They have wounded companions to carry and homes of their own to defend.
What begins with one battered company grows into a campaign to open roads, free prisoners and bring different armies together. Cotton finds friendship among the soldiers who make room for her beside their fires. But those friendships make every order harder: someone she knows must face the danger.
Oliver is still the reason she marches. The people marching with her are becoming the reason she must learn to lead.
Book 1 of the Cotton Bunaparte series-a military fantasy of friendship, loss and the cost of command.
