Ask and you shall receive! I was apparently so overwhelmed by the Dramatic Parental Backstory in the Flora Segunda books that I devoted an entire post to recounting it! I reread that today and WOW, what a wild ride, I had forgotten all of that, and indeed everything about these books except that I enjoyed them, and also that Flora was always calling sandwiches "sandwies."

Apparently (looking at my Ysabeau Wilce tag) I confidently expected a fourth book to come along any day, and I guess in a sense this book is it? But it sounds like the short stories don't pick up the Flora Segunda story where it left off.