The Night Minstrel returns with this warm tale about the nature of gifts and the things we are given.

Leeari Tarkin loves stargazing, but the work in his parent's bakery leaves him little time or opportunity to pursue his beloved passion.  But on the night of Sixth Yule, the strange man who visits their shop daily invites him to a very special gathering at the nearby University. Leeari doesn't want to go; he doesn't like the strange man, and attending would mean giving up a rare opportunity for stargazing on a day when no labor in the bakery required his attention. But his mother is set on his going, and has clearly already given her blessing.

So late that evening, Leeari sets out into a cold and clear winter night that would change his life forever.

It's late and The Crown and Lion is quiet in the wee hours. 

Join the Night Minstrel for this story about Raquel du'Winter and the bright, warm day when she follows her father, uncle, and younger brother to the mysterious, frightful Bog House of legend.  Once in it's nightmare-like grip, Raquel discovers the nature of old wrongs and loss; and finds that it is never too late to defeat the monsters of the past.  

Azzare the Destroyer, the black dragon that had long been thought a myth of the nomadic Riahi people, has brought down the flying ship Teepeevia Bryyn.

The Headmistress Stophi Toki is severely injured and unconscious and it falls to Shokah Levinthian and Aurora Modiri and the other students from the Academy of the Yar'Heyn to save each other and themselves.  In a fight for their lives against an unimaginably powerful creature, Aurora pushes herself to her limits to protect her fallen headmistress and her fellow students; and Shokah discovers a new sort of magic and some startling things about himself.