Celebrate the most romantic holiday of the year with this
new anthology featuring novellas penned by some of today's
most capable authors. Four tales deftly told by a quartet
of women born to entertain.
In THE KISS OF THE SNOW QUEEN, Claire Delacroix puts
her own spin on Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy
tale. In this version, Gerta, a talented but somewhat
untrained seer, uses a magic mirror in her possession to
send out a desperate plea for help. Her cry is answered by
the wizard Cai, who in an attempt to save her, puts his own
life at risk. True to the original story, Gerta sets out to
save Cai from the Snow Queen's spell. With the help of an
insolent trickster god, she's able to accomplish the
impossible.
Lynn Kurland's A WHISPER OF SPRING is the tale of
two mortal brothers, a dark mage and a young king with
magical abilities of his own, who fight for the love of an
Elven princess.
Journey with Sharon Shinn in WHEN WINTER COMES. A
poacher's daughter leaves home with her sister and infant
nephew in a bid to save the child's life from those who
fear his mystic abilities. A nobleman comes to their rescue
on the road, and the fugitive band seeks a place they can
call home without fear of persecution.
A woman warrior is hired to protect an ex-lover in Sarah
Monette's A GIFT OF WINGS. Broken in both body and
mind, Maur has retreated into himself. Although Agido is no
longer his lover or confidante, Maur is the only man she's
ever been in love with and so she fights to bring him back
to himself. If not physically, then she's determined to
help heal his psyche. Trapped together in a small inn
during a winter storm, the two begin to tentatively repair
their relationship. When another guest at the inn is
murdered and Agido named the prime suspect, Maur must find
his own strength and come to her aid before she'll be able
to come to his.
From four of today's most imaginative authors come four
stories of love as pure as the driven snow that will warm
the coldest of hearts.
USA Today bestselling author Claire Delacroix delivers an
enchanting tale of a gifted seer who receives a vision of a
man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love.
USA Today bestselling author Lynn Kurland spins a story of
a mortal man and an elven woman who endure both the mundane
and the magical in their quest to remain together.
Award-winning author Sharon Shinn writes of a brave young
woman who saves her sister's magically- gifted child, only
to receive an unexpected gift of her own.
And newcomer Sarah Monette's romantic novella tells of a
warrior maiden trapped in a deadly storm with the only man
she ever wanted, whose scars she must heal if he is ever to
want her.