Sword and Sorceress XIV

WOMEN OF COURAGE AND POWER

...roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and magic. They are sword-wielding defenders or sorcerous spell-casters-roles too often considered the exclusive province of men.

In 26 original stories of bold and talented women, Diana Paxson, Deborah Wheeler, Elisabeth Waters, Adrienne Martine-Barnes and their fellow word-weavers lead their readers through bespelled realms of the imagination into dangers both physical and sorcerous, where all the powers of Avalon lie in a woman's hands...a talisman of love can banish a demon's deadly threat...an otherworldly hunter catches different game than she bargained for...a mother's scorn begets a daughter's magic....