Ursa — Jenn Reese

WITH SPELL AND BLADE...
They roam through fantasy landscapes -- women who wield a sword in their sisters' defense or work magic passed down through generations. They are the many heroines of Sword and Sorceress -- brave women who have adopted the daring roles so often deemed to be the exclusive province of men.

Join Diana L. Paxson, Esther M. Friesner, Rosemary Edghill, Leslie Fish, Dorothy J. Heydt and their fellow spell-weavers as they carry on Marion Zimmer Bradley's proud, feminist tradition in the twenty-three original, swashbuckling and magical stories of Sword and Sorceress XXI, where:

A family of thieves is sorely disappointed by their daughter's wizarding ambitions...

A warrior with amnesia is taught a lesson she could never have learned if she remembered her past...

A girl is turned down by a school of magic because of her sex, only to become the disciple of a far more powerful mentor... -

An arrogant mage is taught that even the most powerful of sorcerers sometimes, needs the help of material weapons....