What is growing in the garden?
Imowyn, herbalist extraordinaire, plants two seeds. Months later, they grow into beets. Eyes appear. The "vegetables" begin to stir... To move and then to talk.
Who could imagine two baby sproutlings would start a war in the Enchanted Forest?

Cursed at birth with a wild imagination, AJ Cooper spent his youth dreaming of worlds more exciting than Earth. He is a native Midwesterner and loves writing fantasy, especially epic fantasy set in his own created worlds.
He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and the author of numerous fantasy novels and novellas. His short stories have appeared in Morpheus Tales, Fear and Trembling, Residential Aliens and Mindflights, among others.