**Beloved kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot encounters marriage, magic, monsters, and mayhem in this Dragonlance epic fantasy novel set before the War of the Lance! ** Carefree kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot is snared by a lady bounty hunter whose assignment is to ensure the return of the light-fingered escape artist to his homeland. It seems his beloved Uncle Trapspringer is being held prisoner by the venerable council of elders—until Tas honors Kender marriage tradition. But before he can say “I do,” Tasslehoff’s betrothed pulls a disappearing act of her own. The race is on to see who gets dragged to the altar first. Not only must Tas dodge matrimony, but he must elude a capricious wizard set on pickling one of every creature on Krynn; cheer up the last existing woolly mammoth; foil a most determined and deadly assassin, and—in the end—save Kendermore.