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21) Winter's Curse
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Who but a fool would linger after Zavrien laid his curse? Ill luck can kill - and all the more in Zavrien's enchanted, endless winter, haunted with ice giants and frost fairies.
When the soldier Gareth is cursed, the young wizard Perriel learns how dangerous lingering can be.
But she can hold out a sliver of hope for breaking the curse - if it doesn't break them first.
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A wizard must produce justice enough to satisfy a dragon.
A young man tries to rob a tiger's lair.
An enchantress tries to keep a court safe while they ignore the perils of misusing her magic.
A lady finds that court intrigues can spread even to the countryside.
And more tales.
Includes "Over the Sea To Me," "Dragonfire and Time", "The Maze, the Manor, and the Unicorn", "The White Menagerie", "The Dragon's Cottage," "Jewel of the Tiger," and...
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Tales of Wonder and Magic
A woman, sent to a far off duchy, finds a mysterious wolf haunting the forest, and learns there are secrets no one even suspects.
Playing with props for amateur theatricals has more consequences than any of those doing it dream. . . act with care.
A king's tyranny sends a woman searching desperately for a legend of lions, there being no other hope.
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Two novellas of magic and adventure...
Caught between pirates who would force him to use wizardry in their aid, and a king who would force him to spy, Alik will need every scrap of wits and wizardry to forge his own path.
A curse of ill luck leaves Perriel and Gareth trapped in an endless winter, with only the faintest hope of breaking free.
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In a land where ten thousand fairy tales come true, Alissandra knows she is in one when an encounter with a strange woman gives her magical gifts, and another gives her sisters a curse.
And she knows that despite the prospects of enchantments, cursed dances, marvelous birds, and work as a scullery maid, it is wise of her to set out, and seek her fortune.
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A wolf wanders the land....
Charity had thought it dreadful, being sent like a package to a man who might refuse to take her on as a ward. But when a wolf comes to look her up and down in the woods, and the man she is sent to greet her, making her wonder if she remembers something that never happened, she finds that there are problems far worse than that in the duchy.
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A novelette retelling an old ballad.
A castle of marvels, by the sea - full of goblins and sprites. Many young knights come in search of adventures, and leave in search of something less adventurous.
A knight brave enough to face it could even woo the Lady Isobel there, but when Sir Beichan and she catch the attention of her father, the castle has horrors as well as wonders, enough to hold him prisoner. Winning freedom may only separate them, unless...
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