Mickey Zucker Reichert 
Flightless Falcon 

Tamison is a flightless falcon: a worthless man who cannot even work to feed his family. Once a miner like the rest of his family, he lost his nerve after a cave-in trapped him and killed his father and brother. Discovering his wife and children have vanished, stolen away by the Brotherhood, he renames himself in their image: Sueldan. A ratty stray dog joins him, then a fortune teller with a magical ability, a guard whose own sister was lost to the Brotherhood and a mysterious conman who knows more than he s letting on. But if Tamison/Sueldan is to rescue them from slavery, he must discover his own wings and take flight.A man with nothing left to lose must discover his own hidden strengths if he is to save all those he holds dear