num_pages: 350
description: WITH SWORD AND SHIELD, SPELL AND CURSE...Even at the risk of losing her one true love, a young mage must put aside all she holds dear to achieve a higher goal...A benevolent shape-changer is all that stands between her village and the bloody ravages of a werewolf...With a gift granted by the birds themselves, an unhappy young woman may find the means to escape her life of servitude...A young healer never realizes her true Gift until she must heal herself...Travel with Diana Paxson, Jo Clayton, Deborah Wheeler, and their fellow tale-weavers to lands where bold, heroic, women wizards and warriors are not afraid to take on challenges too often considered the sole province of men, in 22 original stories of shape-shifters, dream-questers and other women of power.
language: English
title: Sword and Sorceress XIII
titlecomplete: Sword and Sorceress XIII
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Anthologies, Sword and Sorcery, Fantasy, Short Stories
ratings_count: 429
publisher: DAW