Tyrant Trouble — Phoebe Matthews

Claire flees from a Seattle extortionist to an Otherworld barbarian tyrant. Not a whole lot of improvement there. One threatens with a gun, the other swings a broadsword. This novel won the EPPIE for Best Fantasy of the year. This second edition is reformatted to standard small paperback size. The first edition is available in trade paperback size and in ebook under the original title Tarbaby Trouble.