Sword and Sorceress XIV

From the Back Cover of the DAW first edition: "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, Adriene 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..."