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A short story of a curse, a king, and a child.
A warlord of fire can lay curses of fever. A woman of snow can freeze a man to death.
Pierre, knight of the king, is burning with fever from the curse of the warlord when he learns a possibility that might save him -- and the kingdom. It turns on a child.
2) Crow Curse
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An ancestor's folly, stealing from a dead wizard, left them all turning to crows daily and bitterly attacking any of their number who stole from the dead.
Yet a dying wizard may hold the key of escape....
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Act with care....
In the home of a wealthy but vanished family, four young people, inventorying the household, find the props for the family's amateur theaterics. But a few minutes of donning them to play at roles has consequences that none of them could have guessed. One plays a subtle courtier, one a brave swordsman, one a powerful enchantress...and one takes up the role of a princess, and goes into a forest.
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Enchanted pools, shadowy dragons, wolves that spring from the mists and vanish into them again, paths that are longer, or shorter, than they should be, given where they went...the Misty Hills were filled with marvels.
Madeleine still left the hills, years ago, to marry against her father's will. If her husband's family is less than welcoming, she still is glad she married him, and they have a son, two years old.
But her husband's overlord has fallen...
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In a court of decadence and intrigue, only Maya's enchantments hold in check the snow-white creatures they keep in a menagerie to amuse themselves. But when Lady Tatiana arrives, and all must outdo themselves to win her support for the king, Lord Dariko is certain that she can hold in check a gryphon as well, and will hear no warnings of danger.
Her most careful watch and her most powerful spells might not save them - but nothing else will.
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"The sea of sand touched many shores -- the meanest beggar's brat knew that -- and many sands drifted up from them, but Persinette always maintained that black sand meant death, and mingled with red, a bloody death."
Kyre still had to work for his living. Even it meant taking a job from a wizard. . . .
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An angry dragon demands justice of the king.
Mae, a royal wizard, is assigned the task: the dragon had meted out her own justice, burning a thief with dragonfire, but she had seen him since, whole and sound, and this she will not tolerate, so Mae must put an end to it.
Mae goes to discover the truth of this before the dragon leaves its lair to extract her own justice. And in her search of the spring festivities, learns more secrets than the dragon...
10) One Name
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What a relief it was when the woman, how mysterious she was, offered to stand as godmother for the baby no one could provide for.
Such a relief that only the little girl's mother thinks to wonder why this woman is so intent on having a baby with the same name as herself. And no one else notices the magic on her sledge.
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"Where are the lions?" Jack wonders when the Magic Tree House whisks him and his sister to the vast plains of Africa. Before he can find out, Annie starts to help hundreds of wildebeests cross a rushing river. Next they follow a honey of a bird and meet an awesome Masai warrior. Jack hopes any lions will just stay away....
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A short story of banishment and magical intrigues.
Cecily had been a lady-in-waiting. Exiled to Clearwater - for her health - after she angered Queen Blanche, she has nothing to do but wait.
Until an ambassador is sent there, for his health, and Cecily finds that the court intrigues reach farther than she had known they could.
14) Lifestone
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A mysterious castle holds an evil wizard.How evil -- the knights only learn when they come to the very gate, where he can wield the Lifestone.
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With their lands withering for want of protection from the wind, they hear a demand from the wizard: the jewel of the tiger.Jyron, realizing it may be simpler than it looks, sets boldly out to get a jewel from the lair of a man-eating tiger. To find that simplicity does not mean ease.
17) Free Passage
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When you want to pass the lands of the Amazons, you can ask to be allowed to just sail by. Chloe wants to try it, as the only sane route.But when their queen dies, it won't merely be for the asking.
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She knows that it is magic, but what magic is it?
Have the Good Folk made her baby look differently than he had before?
Or had they snatched him entirely, and left a changeling in his place?
And what can she do against Sir David's sly comments on how he can help her?
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Growing up between the Wizards' Wood and its marvels, and the finest university of wizardry in the world, Nick Briarwood always thought that he wanted to learn wizardry.
When his father attempts to offer him to a demon in a deal, the deal rebounded on him, and Nick survives -- but all the evidence points to his having made the deal.
Now he really wants to learn wizardry. Even though the university, the best place to master it, is also the place...
20) Winter's Curse
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Who but a fool would linger after Zavrien laid his curse? Ill luck can kill - and all the more in Zavrien's enchanted, endless winter, haunted with ice giants and frost fairies.
When the soldier Gareth is cursed, the young wizard Perriel learns how dangerous lingering can be.
But she can hold out a sliver of hope for breaking the curse - if it doesn't break them first.
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