When Vinnie was five, her brilliant mother was institutionalized for madness. Since then, Vinni has longed to be a master homunculi maker, like her mother was before her illness.
Vinni is unaware that her inquiry into how make a homunculi before her menses puts her on a collision course with Grandmother's plans for the Red House.
Lawrence Kapture has been involved with books all his life, as an avid reader and then a librarian. Eleven years with the New York Public Library included time on the influential Books to Remember committee, and ended with him moving to the sticks to take a gig as the Head of Adult and Reference services at a library near Kalamazoo. He started publishing in the early nineties with role playing game supplements.