Chapter One

Bilba Baggins has returned to the Shire to find it very different from the one she left...or perhaps it is she who is different. She is a warrior returned from the battlefield to a place where the greatest threat will be not having enough scones for tea She doesn't know how she will fit back in after all she's gone through but she is willing to try.

She is content with the thought of peace. The notion of living without fear of imminent death, or of something trying to eat her, is a good one.

Unfortunately for Bilba, however, there is a ring whispering in her pocket, a force rising from the darkness and an evil burning in scarlet flame.

And they have no intention of allowing her rest.