This is a collection of Darkover stories written by Elisabeth Waters. Except for the title story, they were previously published in Darkover anthologies between 1980 and 2014.
Elisabeth Waters sold her first short story in 1980 to Marion Zimmer Bradley for The Keeper's Price, the first of the Darkover anthologies. She then went on to sell dozens of short stories to a variety of anthologies. Her first novel, a fantasy called Changing Fate, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. Its sequel is Mending Fate, published in 2016.
She currently writes short stories and has edited the Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which ended with Sword and Sorceress 34.
She has also worked as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera, where she appeared in La Gioconda, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Khovanschina, Das Rheingold, Werther, and Idomeneo.
This collection of short stories includes some familiar friends, as well as some new ones. Alas, the Ski the Hellers was the shortest as I would have loved more of that premise. I’ve always loved the vignette idea that is a different art form. Great fun read.