23 magical tales. From ancient spells unleashed upon our modern world to the equally powerful thirsts for romance and revenge, here are all-original stories written especially for this volume by twenty-two of today's bestselling and award-winning women fantasists. The special bonds between mother and child, wife and husband, victims and their defenders, are just a few of the relationships explored in inventive, thought-provoking and emotional tales which transform our everyday world into something far greater.
Stories by: Mercedes Lackey, Gael Baudino, Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, Diana L. Paxson, Nancy Springer, Ellen Guon, Pamela Dean, Sharan Newman, Lee Barwood, Valerie J. Freireich, Susan Shwartz, Janni Lee Simner, Rebecca Ore, Esther Friesner, Susan Casper, Martha Soukup, Ru Emerson, Sherwood Smith, Barbara Delaplace, Lois Tilton, Beth Meacham