Discount Prices — C.S. Feldman

Sure, everybody knows about the great heroes of legend. The ones people write songs about, the ones who lead the charge against the monsters that lay waste to cities or against an army of invaders that outnumber the good guys twenty to one -- you know, the best heroes that money can buy. Trouble is, not everyone can afford their services.Fortunately, the best heroes are not the only ones on the market.Which is just what harried waitress Peg Brickner accidentally discovers after receiving an unusual -- and, as it turns out, otherworldly -- tip from a peculiar customer in the middle of one rotten dinner shift. Life on Earth is hard enough, but life in the magical world of Cantrial? Forget about it. Five minutes after being unsuspectingly yanked into it by an unscrupulous B-List talent scout for heroes, all Peg wants to do is get back home again before something in this crazy new world kills her or eats her with ketchup. Or both.Trouble is, getting home may be a lot harder than leaving it was. Thanks to a bunch of greedy bureaucrats, Peg's way home is about to be destroyed -- unless she reluctantly joins a trio of magical misfits on a high-stakes heroes-for-hire mission in an attempt to recover stolen property before their rivals -- or a roguishly charming thief -- beat them to it.She knew she should have called in sick today…