Strange guardians overseeing fate-bound duels. A priceless stone on a journey toward a bloody destiny. A thief determined to steal a worthless treasure. In her second collection of worlds-spanning fantasy, award-winning author Marie Brennan takes you back to the world of her famed heroine Lady Trent, through the land of her Hugo Award-nominated poem “A War of Words,” and onward to seven other fantastical realms, filled with pirates, demigods, and murderous creatures of winter’s cold night.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
* “The Şiret Mask”
* “At the Sign of the Crow and Quill”
* “Dead Man's Map”
* “On the Impurity of Dragon-kind”
* “The City of the Tree”
* “Silver Necklace, Golden Ring”
* “Chrysalis”
* “Never to Behold Again”
* “A War of Words”
* Story notes
Marie Brennan is the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent, the Onyx Court, other fantasy series, several poems, and over ninety short stories. As half of M.A. Carrick, she’s also written the Rook and Rose trilogy. Find her at swantower.com and on Patreon.