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In ancient Ireland, Chairiste Ní Cummen, a harper, was trained in the secrets of music and magic, but her curiosity and pride trapped her and her lover in the realm of the fairy folk, the Sidh. Chairiste alone managed to escape, and now, living in the modern world as Christa Cruitaire, a quiet harp teacher, she is all but resigned to her inability to win her beloved's freedom... until she discovers that the volume and violence of the electric guitar and heavy metal might prove brutal enough to forcibly breach the barriers between the human and fairy worlds.

With the aid of her bandmates—who must themselves overcome inner demons of abuse, addiction, and prejudice—Christa is determined to use her newfound musical power to rescue the woman she loves.

Audacious and heartfelt, Gossamer Axe is an entirely original hero's journey, an ode to the power of music and the human spirit alike, charged with rapier-sharp social commentary.

Transported to a land that cannot exist, transformed from Suzanne and Braithwaite into Alouzon and Dythragor, they are the bearers of the Dragonswords, guardians of Gryylth and defenders of the Circle. They are the dragonmasters.

Transported to the Dark Ages, archaeology graduate student Suzanne Helling must use her empowerment as Guardian of the land to fight a mysterious force that employs the nuclear weapons of the twentieth century that Suzanne unwittingly brought with her...

Cast back to Los Angeles with the Specter of Death's hounds in pursuit, Alouzon Dragonmaster, the Goddess of Gryylth and a former UCLA graduate student, searches for a gateway back to the magic land that she has come to call home.

Three novellas of elven magic return to the world of the Strands of Starlight series and place the fate of humankind in the hands of Varden the Elf, while in another three stories, an ancient spirit stirs in contemporary Colorado.

Table of Contents:

• xi - Introduction (Spires of Spirit) - essay
• 17 - Charity - novella
• 66 - Lady of Light - novella
• 107 - A Touch of Distant Hands - novella
• 155 - Elvenhome - novelette
• 197 - Please Come to Denver (in the Spring) - novelette
• 239 - The Shadow of the Starlight - (1985) - novelette

Miriam is a frail young outcase whose healing powers have branded her a witch in the Inquisition of fourteenth-century Europe. Fleeing her city in search of the Free Towns and acceptance, she is brutally violated by a man she heals from the brink of death. Saved by the intervention of the elves, Miriam swears to exact revenge on her assailant. But first she must learn the art of swordsmanship and train to be a warrior with her newfound power of elfin sorcery.

When the Free Towns come under siege by the Inquisition -- led by Miriam's attacker -- the safety and very existence of her people is threatened. Miriam knows her strength will be tested in a face-to-face confrontation with her enemy, but how can she battle for the freedom of others when her own revenge is a mere sword's lengeth away...?

In the sequel to Strands of Starlight, Christopher, Baron of Aurverelle, rescues Vanessa, a young peasant girl with extraordinary powers, from the persecution of the Inquisition, and the two join forces with Elvenkind to save the world from murderous rebels.

The lone elf survivor in the repressive age of The Inquisition, Natil encounters three things that keep her from departing this world--a young woman hearing voices, a vision of the future, and an Inquisitor.

Natil, the last survivor of the ancient Elven race, journeys across time to the twentieth century to find a new breed of Elves, humans who had unlocked the path to magic and immortality, but their new world is threatened with perils that not even Elven magic may defeat.

A tiny kingdom, frought with internal conflicts and three centuries of drought, embraces the promise of relief by diplomats from the Righteous States of America, and three special people find their lives changed forever.

Having her youth and beauty restored by the Goddess, Sari vows to bring her people back to the Caves of the forbidden mountains, but diplomats from the Righteous States of America also search for the mountains, hoping to overcome Napoleon.

Stranded in the sacred Library of the Three Kingdoms, Sara, an herbalist and woman of the Goddess, reluctantly teams up with a pretentious scholar and an argumentative crown prince turned thief in order to survive.