Winter Moon

Winter Moon gathers three fantasy novellas linked by the pull of the moon. In the first, by Mercedes Lackey, a young woman in a remote country must choose between her father's commands and her king's. Drawn to a Fool, she finds a kind of magic she never anticipated, though it may cost more than she can pay. Tanith Lee, a World Fantasy Award winner, contributes the second story, about a warrior priestess haunted by the curse of a dead companion. She is not ready for the power locked inside her and must confront what she has kept hidden, a challenge set around "The Heart of the Moon."

The final piece, "Banshee Cries" by C.E. Murphy, follows Jo Walker as ritual killings under a full moon draw her into a confrontation with a Harbinger of Death. She has a strange gift that she may be wise to take seriously, since the next person whose life she must save could be her own.