After a widowed queen, the guardian of the magical Seven-Petaled Shield, is separated for her son, her son believes her to be dead and vows chaotic vengeance, b

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First-rate world-building from a writer gifted with soaring imagination and good old-fashioned Sense of Wonder. — C.J. Cherryh A romantic and intellectually s

: In 1985, Deborah J. Ross sold her first Darkover short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Free Amazons of Darkover. For the first time, here are all of Ross�