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A collection of fantasy tales set in mysterious and bewitching forests includes the adventures of a woodcutter's daughter-turned-private detective, a young tribesman who is torn from his forest home, and a woodsman's unexpected encounter with a witch.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1995) - essay by Katharine Kerr
• The Forest's Not for Burning - (1995) - shortstory by Katherine Lawrence
• "I'll Give You Three Wishes...." - (1995) - shortstory by Kevin Andrew Murphy
• The Triple Death - (1995) - shortstory by Ken St. Andre
• Out of the Woods - (1995) - shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Viridescence - (1995) - shortstory by Connie Hirsch
• Fiat Silva - (1995) - shortstory by Jack Oakley
• Weeds - (1995) - shortstory by Julia H. West and Brook West
• Benbow - (1995) - shortstory by Nancy Etchemendy
• The Prism of Memory - (1995) - shortstory by Jo Clayton
• The Force That Through the Green Fuse - (1995) - shortstory by Mark Kreighbaum
• My Soul Into the Boughs - (1995) - shortstory by Teresa Edgerton
• These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of - (1995) - shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers
• The Clearing - (1995) - shortstory by Lois Tilton
• How the Ant Made a Bargain - (1995) - shortstory by Karawynn Long
• In Fear of Little Nell - (1995) - shortstory by Gregory Feeley
• Wood Song - (1995) - shortstory by Kate Daniel
• Virginia Woods - (1995) - shortstory by Janni Lee Simner
• Ties of Love - (1995) - shortfiction by Lawrence Schimel
• The Heart of the Forest - (1995) - shortstory by Dave Smeds
• Holy Ground - (1995) - shortstory by Thomas S. Roche
• Ghostwood - (1995) - novelette by Michelle West
• The Monsters of Mill Creek Park - (1995) - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• The Memory of Peace - (1995) - novelette by Kate Elliott
• Everything Has a Place - (1995) - shortstory by Barbara A. Denz
• Trees Perpetual of Sleep - (1995) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Take one bored princess. Make her the seventh daughter in a very proper royal family. Have her run away.

Add one powerful, fascinating, dangerous dragon.

Princess Cimerone has never met anyone (or anything) like the dragon Kazul. But then, she's never met a witch, a jinn, a death-dealing talking bird or a stone prince either.

Princess Cimerone ran away to find some excitement.

She's found plenty.

Those wicked wizards are at it again! This time they are draining power from the Enchanted Forest. And that does not sit well with Mendanbar the King. On the advice of the witch Morwen, Mendanbar decides to consult with Kazul, the King of Dragons. When he arrives at Kazul's cave, he meets Princess Cimorene and learns that Kazul has been captured by those horrible wizards. Mendanbar and Cimorene will have to search for him, traveling over mountains and past man-eating giants, terrifying rock snakes, and an assortment of magic-wielders.

The third of four volumes in the critically acclaimed Enchanted Forest Chronicles.

Queen Cimorene, Morwen the witch, and a host of other characters once again foil the plots of the perfidious wizards in this third volume of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles.

This time, the dastardly wizards have stolen King Mendanbar's magic sword, vital to the health of the forest, right out of the castle armory. Morwen joins Cimorene, Kazul, Telemain, several cats, and Killer on a quest to retrieve the sword. Meanwhile, back at home, the forces of the wizards are gathering.

"Mother taught me to be polite to dragons...."

Daystar never thought he'd be walking through the Enchanted Forest with a magic sword, a fire-witch, and a baby dragon. He never dreamed his mother, Cimorene, would tell him to leave their home and not to return until his task was complete. Or that he alone held the power to release King Mendanbar and the Enchanted Forest from the wizards' evil spell. He doesn't even know who King Mendanbar is.

But Daystar learns quickly, and that's good, because he's about to encounter magic and wizards and dragons - quite a deadly combination.