Mary Catelli: 38 books

What a relief it was when the woman, how mysterious she was, offered to stand as godmother for the baby no one could provide for. Such a relief that only the little girl's mother thinks to wonder why this woman is so intent on having a baby with the same name as herself.  And no one else notices the magic on her sledge.

A short story of a curse, a king, and a child. A warlord of fire can lay curses of fever.  A woman of snow can freeze a man to death.  Pierre, knight of the king, is burning with fever from the curse of the warlord when he learns a possibility that might save him -- and the kingdom.  It turns on a child.

A wizard must produce justice enough to satisfy a dragon. A young man tries to rob a tiger's lair. An enchantress tries to keep a court safe while they ignore the perils of misusing her magic. A lady finds that court intrigues can spread even to the countryside. And more...

An angry dragon demands justice of the king. Mae, a royal wizard, is assigned the task:  the dragon had metted out her own justice, burning a thief with dragonfire, but she had seen him since, whole and sound, and this she will not tolerate, so Mae must put an end to it. Mae goes to...

Enchanted pools, shadowy dragons, wolves that spring from the mists and vanish into them again, paths that are longer, or shorter, than they should be, given where they went. . . the Misty Hills were filled with marvels. Madeleine still left the hills, years ago, to marry against her father's...

Growing up between the Wizards' Wood and its marvels, and the finest university of wizardry in the world, Nick Briarwood always thought that he wanted to learn wizardry. When his father attempts to offer him to a demon in a deal, the deal rebounded on him, and Nick survives -- but all the evidence...

Trapped in a pirate port. . . Caught between pirates who would force him to use wizardry in their aid, and a king who would force him to spy, Alik will need every scrap of wits and wizardry to forge his own path.

Act with care. . . .In the home of a wealthy but vanished family, four young people, inventorying the household, find the props for the family's amateur theaterics.  But a few minutes of donning them to play at roles has consequences that none of them could have guessed.  One plays a subtle courtier,...

The dragon must die.  It haunts the land and strikes with fire and death without warning. Prince Baudouin knows the perils, and how other knights have perish.  Still, he is confident that he can slay the dragon.  All he has to do is forge through the burnt wasteland about its mountain, and slay it. All.

Two novellas of magic and adventure. . . Caught between pirates who would force him to use wizardry in their aid, and a king who would force him to spy, Alik will need every scrap of wits and wizardry to forge his own path. A curse of ill luck leaves Perriel and Gareth trapped in an endless winter, with only the faintest hope of breaking free.

An ancestor's folly, stealing from a dead wizard, left them all turning to crows daily and bitterly attacking any of their number who stole from the dead. Yet a dying wizard may hold the key of escape. . . .

In a land where ten thousand fairy tales come true, Alissandra knows she is in one when an encounter with a strange woman gives her magical gifts, and another gives her sisters a curse. And she knows that despite the prospects of enchantments, cursed dances, marvelous birds, and work as a scullery maid, it is wise of her to set out, and seek her fortune.

A novelette of curses and journeys. Avice's dreams of settling at Clearwater are dashed.  The lawsuit had ended, and the lands were made over to her, but a bone wizard lays a curse on the land, and blight begins to spread.  All will die before the curse as it spreads. Neither her family...

Drunken mermaids -- a clan cursed to become crows -- a magic book that even the Nameless Necromancer fears -- and more in this reprint collection of thirteen stories and a poem.