Seek out extraordinary lands . . . Strange guardians overseeing fate-bound duels. A priceless stone on a journey toward a bloody destiny. A thief determined to steal a worthless treasure. In her second collection of worlds-spanning fantasy, award-winning author Marie Brennan takes you back to the world of her famed heroine Lady Trent, through the land of her Hugo Award-nominated poem “A War of Words,” and onward to seven other fantastical realms, filled with pirates, demigods, and murderous creatures of winter’s cold night. TABLE OF CONTENTS * “The Şiret Mask” * “At the Sign of the Crow and Quill” * “Dead Man's Map” * “On the Impurity of Dragon-kind” * “The City of the Tree” * “Silver Necklace, Golden Ring” * “Chrysalis” * “Never to Behold Again” * “A War of Words” * Story notes

Seek out extraordinary lands . . . Strange guardians overseeing fate-bound duels. A priceless stone on a journey toward a bloody destiny. A thief determined to steal a worthless treasure. In her second collection of worlds-spanning fantasy, award-winning author Marie Brennan takes you back to the world of her famed heroine Lady Trent, through the land of her Hugo Award-nominated poem “A War of Words,” and onward to seven other fantastical realms, filled with pirates, demigods, and murderous creatures of winter’s cold night. TABLE OF CONTENTS * “The Şiret Mask” * “At the Sign of the Crow and Quill” * “Dead Man's Map” * “On the Impurity of Dragon-kind” * “The City of the Tree” * “Silver Necklace, Golden Ring” * “Chrysalis” * “Never to Behold Again” * “A War of Words” * Story notes