The Shattered Sphere Author:Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey Editors Description: This Book Club edition contains the books The Dead of Winter, Soul of the City, and Blood Ties from the Thieves' World Novels. — Inner Jacket: — Sanctuary - dangerous, decadent city of magic and menace... the unique metropolis whose stones and stalls, taverns and towers have been lovingly built in story after story by such top spinner... more »s of modern fantasy as Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey, C.J. Cherryh, Janet Morris, Andrew Offutt and Diane Duane.
In the town's treacherous, twisting and down-trodden streets you'll meet such formidable denizens as:
Ischade, necromancer and thief, cursed with a hunger that can only be sated by death;
Straton, a warrior trained and true - courting deadly danger in the form of a witch's fatal love;
Roxane, Death's Queen, whose power is nearly unstoppable, and whose boundless ambition makes her the bane of all.
In the Shattered Sphere you will encounter warriors and wizards, lovers and liars, thieves and victims... 22 tales of woe and wonder including... (more-too much to type)« less