The Queen in Winter
by Sarah Monette, Lynn Kurland, Sharon Shinn, Claire Delacroix

From four of today's most imaginative authors come four stories of love as pure as the driven snow that will warm the coldest of hearts.

USA Today bestselling author Claire Delacroix delivers an enchanting tale of a gifted seer who receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love in The Kiss of the Snow Queen.

USA Today bestselling author Lynn Kurland spins a story of a mortal man and an elven woman who endure both the mundane and the magical in their quest to remain together in A Whisper of Spring.

Award-winning author Sharon Shinn writes of a brave young woman who saves her sister's magically-gifted child, only to receive an unexpected gift of her own in When Winter Comes.

And newcomer Sarah Monette's romantic novella tells of a warrior maiden trapped in a deadly storm with the only man she ever wanted, whose scars she must heal if he is ever to want her in A Gift of Wings.

Sarah Monette's Bio

I was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the secret cities of the Manhattan Project. I studied English and Classics in college, and have gone on to get my M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature. My first novel, Mélusine will be published in hardback by Ace Books in August 2005, the second, The Virtu, to follow in July 2006. I collect books, and my husband collects computer parts, so our living space is the constantly contested border betwen these two imperial ambitions.