num_pages: 361
description: The pleasure of your company is requested.Graceful feet tracing courtly steps.Eyes behind jeweled masks meeting across a room of twirling dancers.Gloved hands touching fleetinglyor gripping swords...Anything can happen at a ball.You are invited to enjoy these stories of fancy and fantasy from thirteen authors framed in the splendor and elegance of a ballroom. Be it at a house party for diplomats and thieves or Almacks in a side-universe in which the Patronesses have magic or a medieval festival just after the plague years ... Prepare to be swept into the enchantment of the dance!Stories by:Marie Brennan The iret MaskMarissa Doyle Just Another Quiet Evening at AlmacksSara Stamey Homeworld StrangerCharlotte Kerygma in Waltz TimeIrene Radford Dancing BanglesGillian Polack A Plague of DancersDeborah J. Ross A Borrowed HeartFrancesca Forrest Gown of HarmoniesLynne April Brown The DressP.G. Nagle A Waltz for MayBrenda Clough Sherbet on SilverLayla Lawlor Gilt and GlamourSherwood Smith Lily and Crown
language: English
title: It Happened at the Ball
publisher: Book View Cafe