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A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Now a knight of Tortall, with her gender no longer a secret, Alanna embarks on her next adventure to the edge of the realm. Captured for the crime of trespassing, Alanna is sentenced to a duel to the death. But the Woman Who Rides Like a Man is not so easy to kill. Though the duel is won, the battle is just beginning. When Alanna is named the Bazhir people’s first female shaman, she is tasked with training her successors. But first, she must overcome their fears of magic, for the sake of all Tortall.

Major Leah Morgan leads the LOC into their most dangerous mission yet—a decommissioned fort along the Hudson River, now the headquarters of the BCCS, where a dark ritual is about to unleash an ancient and unstoppable force. With her team walking into a fortress full of traps and supernatural defenses, Leah's strategic mind is their best weapon, but her growing feelings for Jamie threaten to complicate the mission.

When a mysterious, horrifying plague descends upon their sacred island, turning proud Amazon warriors into violent, lust-driven cannibals, Thaleia leads her surviving sisters on a desperate voyage south, fleeing beyond the reach of the gods themselves. But their sanctuary—the frozen, lifeless wasteland at the very edge of the world—offers no peace, only endless ice and relentless daylight. As tensions rise among the weary warriors, Thaleia struggles to hold her tribe together, haunted by the whispers beneath the ice and the shadows of the past they've tried desperately to outrun.

On assignment in the Philippines, archaeologist Annja Creed meets with a contact to verify some information. Easy enough. But when the man doesn't turn out to be whom he said he was, Annja finds herself handcuffed, blindfolded and kidnapped. And to make matters worse, she's a prisoner of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf, a notorious terrorist group. Desperate to escape, Annja is able to flee after slaying one of her captors. But she soon gets lost in the hostile jungle, which is rumored to be haunted by the spirits of Moro warriors who fought off conquistadors with their blades.