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High fantasy novels

A Diabolical Bargain

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 where he is most likely to be discovered.

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Madeleine And the Mists

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 afoul of the king. And all his men fall with him, including her husband. She sets out, to seek the queen and try to bypass the king -- and the Misty Hills. Some things are not so easily evaded.

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Spells in Secret

Magical doors and other mischief mix badly with tales about murder, as young scholars return to Graytowers.

Kenneth, as prefect, thought he had his hands filled with the beginning of the new session, but when one magical door takes him and another scholar far past the bounds of a prank, they barely escape with their lives, and their escape means only that they are in graver danger. They must hide, leaving the school, and casting all their spells in secret.

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Fairy Tale Fantasy

The Princess Seeks Her Fortune

In a land where ten thousand fairy tales come true, Alissandra knows she is in one when an encounter with a strange woman gives her magical gifts, and another gives her sisters a curse.

And she knows that despite the prospects of enchantments, cursed dances, marvelous birds, and work as a scullery maid, it is wise of her to set out, and seek her fortune.

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The Other Princess

This time, they invited the last fairy to the christening.

Elise, uncursed at her christening, received strange gifts about castles and roses. With such good fortune, what more does she need? She grows up forever in the shadow of her lovely, cursed, tragic cousin.

Even when the curse falls, and Princess Isabelle lies in enchanted sleep, life must go on for Princess Elise. Despite the curse, the kingdom can not sleep itself, and neither can she.

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The Enchanted Princess Wakes

Once upon a time, a princess was cursed at her christening -- but not the one you heard of.

When the fairy decreed that Rosaleen would fall into an enchanted sleep, and how she would wake, the grand plans of kings, to unite kingdoms, failed. They sent her to an out-of-the-way castle in the mountains, in hopes the curse would do no harm to anyone else.

There, alone, Rosaleen lived and learned, and realized that she herself had to be ready to face the curse, and when it broke.

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Even After

Mirror, mirror on the wall -- can I be safe when I am tall?

Rumpelstiltskin got the baby.

Rapunzel and her prince never again met.

Snow White still sleeps in the forest.

Biancabella, Snow White's half-sister, knows that if she is more beautiful than her mother, trouble will follow again. Her appeal to the magic mirror only gains her stories of how hard it is to fight the evil sorceresses and wizards and witches who have banded together to bring unhappy endings.

But with her mother seeking to constrain her, Biancabella knows she may have no choice to use that knowledge to attempt to escape.

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Super hero

Through A Mirror, Darkly

What lies behind a reflection?

Powers have filled the world with both heroes and villains. Helen, despite her own powers, had acquired the name Sanddollar but stayed out of the fights.

When the enigmatic chess masters create a mirrored world reflecting her own home and the world about it, it's not so easy to escape. All the more in that the people of that world are a dark reflection of all those she knows.

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Collections

My short works, collected! Most of them are also available individually, but not all. Some of the longer ones are available individually in paperback.

Except for Journeys and Wizardry, which contains some contemporary fantasy, all high fantasy.

Curses And Wonders

A collection of tales of wonder and magic. A prince sets out to win his way to the dragon's lair. A woman fights a curse on her lands. A man returns to his castle, bringing a magical sword, and worse things. And more tales.

Includes "Dragon Slayer", "The Book of Bone", "Mermaids' Song", "Witch-Prince Ways", "Sword and Shadow", "Eyes of the Sorceress", "Fever and Snow,” and "The Emperor's Clothes”.

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Enchantments And Dragons

A wizard must produce justice enough to satisfy a dragon. A young man tries to rob a tiger's lair. An enchantress tries to keep a court safe while they ignore the perils of misusing her magic. A lady finds that court intrigues can spread even to the countryside. And more tales.

Includes "Over the Sea To Me," "Dragonfire and Time", "The Maze, the Manor, and the Unicorn", "The White Menagerie", "The Dragon's Cottage," "Jewel of the Tiger," and "The Sword Breaks."

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Magic And Secrets

Tales of Wonder and Magic . A woman, sent to a far off duchy, finds a mysterious wolf haunting the forest, and learns there are secrets no one even suspects. Playing with props for amateur theatricals has more consequences than any of those doing it dream. . . act with care. A king's tyranny sends a woman searching desperately for a legend of lions, there being no other hope.

Includes “The Wolf and the Ward”, “The Princess Goes Into The Forest”, and “The Lion and the Library”

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Treachery And Spells

Two novellas of magic and adventure. . .

Caught between pirates who would force him to use wizardry in their aid, and a king who would force him to spy, Alik will need every scrap of wits and wizardry to forge his own path.

A curse of ill luck leaves Perriel and Gareth trapped in an endless winter, with only the faintest hope of breaking free.

Includes “The Witch-Child and the Scarlet Fleet” and “Winter's Curse”.

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Sorcery and Kings

Tales of wonder and magic. A fire master must find a magical starter of fires. A mysterious queen holds a ball in a city filled with magic. Magic of roses and gold are needed to fight a dreadful war. An oath keeps a ghost captive.

Includes “The Hall of the Heiress”, “The Firemaster and the Flames”, “Ripening Gold”, “Queen Shulamith's Ball”, and “Oath Keeper”

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Journeys And Wizardry

Drunken mermaids -- a clan cursed to become crows -- a magic book that even the Nameless Necromancer fears -- and more in this reprint collection of thirteen stories and a poem.

Includes "Thief, Thief!", "Lifestone", "The Turtle in the Sea of Sand", "Neither/Nor", "One Name", "Were I You", "Where There Is Smoke", "The Magic of the Lost God", "Isabelle and the Siren", "Crow Curse", "Dragon's Breath", "Never Comment On A Likeness", "The Drunken Mermaids", and "Free Passage"

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