The boys are face to face this week to bring their impressive and nuanced understanding of military tactics and history to the circumstances of the great “Sisty War”™ between Shannon Kilbourne and her sisters. And since this is an Ellen Miles book, the mystical revelations contained in its pages go far beyond the Good Clean Baby-Sitting Fun in the A-plot, or the cool pronouncements of Pete Black in the B-plot. In fact, Ellen has seen fit to reveal something long coveted by students of the Sitters’ Cycle: The very location of the portal to Stoneybrook itself. And it’s not where you’d expect it to be ...

Music credits:

“Minuet No. 1 in D,” by Jonny Easton

“Upbeat Hero Cinematic Music,” by BlackOxProduction

“Slash,” by Arc North

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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