When sisters Nuliyaa and Cheeyt lose their jobs on the same day, they realize there's only one way to support their family: work together to build the caravan-guarding company Cheeyt always dreamed of.
Except the sisters have never willingly worked together on anything, a rival company is hiring all of the mages, and no one wants to work with an unproven outfit. To make matters worse, they have to pay exorbitant registration fees, their youngest sister and mother are demanding to come along, and Nuliyaa's former employer is trying to sabotage them.
Just when the sisters think they will have to give up on their dreams, an opportunity arises to take an enigmatic and injured malk home to her family. This job might be what they need to save their futures--or destroy them.
The Malk Job is a cozy-ish, low-stakes fantasy adventure with three sisters learning to appreciate each others' strengths, talking mythical creatures, and a journey through a world filled with magic and territorial dragons.
When Alanna ran out of horse stories to read at the local library, her father gave her a boxset of The Lord of The Rings. After a couple of weeks, she declared the trilogy a suitable alternative and started working her way through all the fantasy books in the library.
(Though the unicorns she kept sneaking into her own horse stories should have been a clue about where the whole writing thing was going.)
Now, Alanna writes low stakes fantasy with romance. And there's usually a horse or two around that are not of the winged variety.