This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
The barge The Marigold puts down at Dust Creek for a quiet supper and finds a whole town gone mad with bunting. The frontier’s biggest wedding in a generation is tomorrow, and the hired ceremonial crew, a brace of servers, two ushers, and one stately, soft-spoken butler called Pendrick, are behaving very strangely indeed.

They were flawless for two days. Now they keep drifting off their stations, gently, all the same way, toward the warm end of the party. The hire-company has a slim grey case and a kind voice: reset the lot, or send them back, before the clock runs out.

But Roy will not call a machine broken before anyone has gone and asked it what it thinks it is doing.

Warm, gently funny, full of heart. A standalone adventure; read in any order.

Perfect for readers of Becky Chambers, Travis Baldree, and TJ Klune. This is an adult cosy SF western comfort read, wholesome science fiction with no on-page violence, and a low stakes cozy space novella built for the kind of evening that wants a blanket and a pot of tea.

Every book in the Robot Wrangler Roy series is a complete standalone adventure and can be read in any order. No cliffhangers, no required reading order, and no one left behind.