Marrying Damian Breanne Mc Ivor John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale is

John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale is the fourth in The Old Man's War series

Sawbones picked on the wrong family

part espionage novel and part mystery

Zigri's daughter Ingeborg sets off into the wilderness to try to bring her mother back home

first-class gastronome and inspector of food

Marrying Damian Breanne Mc Ivor John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale isA conventional Englishman and his wife have long been casual friends with Damian, a feckless, chronically broke, thrice married friend whose occasional visits lend their lives colour. To their horror, their beloved and sensible daughter falls head over heels for the cad, and it is clear she will marry him. The price of enlivening their "stay at home smugness" suddenly seems awfully high.