Alenna's happy Year and a Day of handfast to her cuddly pastrybaker is nearly over. Only the Day itself remains before they must marry or part, and their wedding is already arranged. What better match could there be for a girl who likes everything spotlessly clean? But the town Sage bids Alenna to follow local custom and try out a man altogether different – just for the Day, just to be sure.
She won't even get to choose her own Dayman. That's where the wisdom of the Sage comes in. The Sage always knows whose body will make up a lassie's mind for her... and for Alenna, the key to deciding her future lies with Meikle the Blacksmith, a muckle great man with a dirty workshop and a red-hot forge...
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