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1 The Keeper's Price [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters
  It is a great honor to be a Keeper of Arilinn and lead a circle of magic-workers, but the price can be higher than you ever dreamed. (Published: 1980)

Words: 5082 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Fantasy
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2 The Alton Gift [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
  The "gift" of the Alton family has been notorious for centuries. But how did it first develop? (Published: 1980)

Words: 821 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Fantasy
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3 A Capella [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
  Everyone has at least one talent--but sometimes it's not what they think it is. (Published: 1994)

Words: 4835 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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4 Child of the Heart [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
  The Oath of the Free Amazons requires a Renunciate to send any son she bears away to be fostered, but what does giving up her child do to the mother--or to the son? (Published: 1985)

Words: 1656 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Fantasy
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5 Firetrap [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters
  Things that happen while you're out of your body don't have any effect on your physical body--or do they? (Published: 1990)

Words: 3301 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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6 Sin Catenas [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
  Wives are supposed to obey their hubands, and children their parents--but shouldn't there be a limit somewhere? (Published: 1988)

Words: 3315 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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7 Meeting of Minds [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
  The MacAran gift is rapport with animals. Sometimes this gift is useful, sometimes it's a nuisance, and sometimes it's just plain strange... (Published: 1991)

Words: 567 - Reading Time: 1-2 min.
Category: Fantasy
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8 Kihar [Darkover Series]
by Vera Nazarian
  This story investigates a really unusual use of laran and that untranslatable concept of kihar - which does not mean precisely pride, nor even integrity, but partakes of both. (Published: 1987)

Words: 7574 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
Category: Fantasy
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9 Destined for the Tower [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters, Deborah Wheeler
  There is more than one "fate worse than death"--and more than one way to avoid it. (Published: 1993)

Words: 4469 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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10 Rebirth [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
  After reading Leslie Williams's story of a trapped sorcerer, "Escape," during the editing of Sword of Chaos, Elisabeth Waters promptly provided this sequel to it ... "So I could sleep at night," she commented. (Published: 1982)

Words: 404 - Reading Time: 1-1 min.
Category: Fantasy
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11 A Proper Escort [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
  When MZB was editing the Darkover anthologies, she got a lot of stories on "Subject A: a Free Amazon meets a man she can trust" and "Subject B: Dyan Ardais meets a woman he can trust." After a few years of listening to MZB grumble, Lisa carried out her threat and wrote Subject AB: Dyan Ardais and the Free Amazon. (Published: 1991)

Words: 2655 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Fantasy
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12 Playfellow [Darkover]
by Elisabeth Waters
  Hilary Castamir had a little trouble adjusting to life at Arilinn Tower. Many children have imaginary friends, but Hilary's wasn't imaginary. (Published: 1987)

Words: 3588 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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13 A Dance for Darkover [Darkover series]
by Vera Nazarian
  Mocking tradition? Or showing the best side of Darkover to the rest of the Empire? (Published: 1991)

Words: 7028 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Fantasy
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14 Midwife [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
  Sometimes a career path can lead through the Hellers, complete with an unanticipated detour. (Published: 1985)

Words: 3758 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Fantasy
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15 Blood Will Tell [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  What is the good of being in an alien world in a civilized Empire if you keep the provincial spirit and customs of your backwater? (Published: 1980)

Words: 6502 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
Category: Fantasy
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16 To Keep the Oath [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  I could teach them this. But the laws of our charter prevent me and I am bound by oath to obey those laws; laws made, not by our own Guild-mothers, but by men who fear what we might have to say to their women! (Published: 1979)

Words: 10300 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
Category: Fantasy
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17 Danila's Song [Darkover series]
by Vera Nazarian
  More and more, he was becoming a bitter introvert. And this process, the leronis at Serrais had said, was almost surely irrevocable. It came as a direct result of what he had gone through, both physically and psychologically, during the horror of the fire ... (Published: 1991)

Words: 5723 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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18 Midsummer Night's Gift [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
  In the magic of a summer night forest, a Free Amazon must choose between desire and duty. (Published: 1991)

Words: 3637 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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19 Different Kind of Courage [Darkover Series]
by Mercedes Lackey
  It takes a lot of courage to be a Free Amazon, but does that mean you absolutely must be a swordswoman? (Published: 1985)

Words: 5879 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Fantasy
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20 Wasteland [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
  Rorie had been taught that his laran was flawed and useless, but it would take a different kind of talent to survive the haunted Tower. (Published: 1987)

Words: 6030 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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21 Death of Brendon Ensolare [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
  A cadet pranks turns disastrous when the imaginary comrade takes on a life--and death--of his own. (Published: 1988)

Words: 7741 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
Category: Fantasy
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22 The Jackal [Darkover Series]
by Vera Nazarian
  The curse on Harksell Keep affected more than just its lord. (Published: 1988)

Words: 8470 - Reading Time: 24-33 min.
Category: Fantasy
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23 Object Lesson [Darkover series]
by Mercedes Lackey
  Varzil the Good has put an end to the laran wars, and peace has come to the land--unless you're planning to combine the Sisterhood of the Sword and the Priestesses of Avarra and establish the first Guildhouse for the Free Amazons. Tayksa n'ha Elayna and her partner Deena know that's bound to require at least one fight. (Published: 1990)

Words: 3555 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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24 Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
  Bitterness can run so deep that not even death stands in the way of revenge. (Published: 1990)

Words: 5358 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Fantasy
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25 Set a Thief [Darkover series]
by Mercedes Lackey
  The Compact prohibits any weapon "beyond the arms' reach of the one who uses it." So, are arrows lawful? Varzil may not like it, but Tayksa n'ha Elayna thinks this is a valid question. And he needs her help; someone is trying to kill him. (Published: 1991)

Words: 4985 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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26 Cradle of Lies [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
  The brilliant young Keeper Ashara was determined to carry on Varzil's work, no matter what the cost. (Published: 1994)

Words: 5288 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Fantasy
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27 Poetic License [Darkover series]
by Mercedes Lackey
  Tayksa n'ha Elayna though being King Varzil's personal guard at court was boring, until a petitioner arrived with a truly unusual problem and she became part of the solution. (Published: 1994)

Words: 4773 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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28 The Forest [Darkover series]
by Cynthia McQuillin
  Caselin had always feared the Ya-men. But even an apprentice healer can't leave an injured creature alone and in pain. (Published: 1980)

Words: 2673 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Fantasy
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29 The Chieri's Godchild [Darkover series]
by Cynthia McQuillin
  It's bad enough to love a mortal when your lifespan is much longer than hers. But when a female chieri adopts a little girl found lost in the forest, things are going to change dramatically when the girl grows up. (Published: 1994)

Words: 2307 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Fantasy
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30 This One Time [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
  Here we have a heroic tale enlarging on the "Legend of Lady Bruna"--an account of the famous Darkovan heroine's first battle. Bruna Alton was not content with either of the traditional roles open to women--marriage or life in a Tower--so she found another path for her life. (Published: 1985)

Words: 3690 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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31 Death's Scepter [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
  It's hard to be friends and allies when those around you want you to be rivals. (Published: 1988)

Words: 3583 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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32 Sword of Chaos [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Mhari Delleray prayed for help to avenge the murders of her family, but she got more help than she could possibly have wanted. (Published: 1982)

Words: 7940 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Fantasy
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33 Mind-Eater [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
  Domenic MacAran, forced to spend the night in a haunted castle, found himself some unlikely allies there. (Published: 1990)

Words: 4374 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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34 Oathbreaker [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Dyan Ardais has already taken the monitor's oath when he is summoned home from Arilinn because his father has just killed his stepmother. The oath binds him not to use his poweres to force his will on another. But his father is insane, obviously dangerous to those around him, and totally unwilling to listen to reason. (Published: 1984)

Words: 6850 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy
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35 The Hawkmaster's Son [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Dyan wanted every happiness for his best friend--didn't he? (Published: 1980)

Words: 6808 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy
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36 Bride Price [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  When non-telepaths marry, the two become one flesh. With telepaths, like Rohana Aillard and Gabriel Ardais, the joining may be deeper still. But if husband and wife become one mind, what happens to the survivor when one of them dies? (Published: 1987)

Words: 4079 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Fantasy
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37 Honor of the Guild [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
  The dead men weren't the sort that anyone would truly mourn, but the fact that a Renunciate had killed them was a real problem for the Guild. If they couldn't deal with their renegade sister, they could find their Charter revoked and all Renunciates outlawed. (Published: 1991)

Words: 4228 - Reading Time: 12-16 min.
Category: Fantasy
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38 House Rules [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Raising children is difficult whether you're living in a Renunciate Guild House or not--especially when one of them is a rebellious adolescent girl you'd be willing to foster elsewhere, while the one you want to keep is supposed to be fostered as a toddler, just because he's a boy. (Published: 1988)

Words: 3316 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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39 Invitation to Chaos [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
  Gwynn Alton hated his gift and the way it had been imposed on him. But when Thendara, the city he had designed and helped build, was threatened, he would do anything to save it, even combine the Alton Gift with the Hastur Gift of King Stefan. (Published: 1991)

Words: 6825 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy
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40 The Shadow [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Dyan Ardias was forced by the Comyn council to adopt Danilo Syrtis as his heir to atone for the wrong he had done him. So how did that work out? (Published: 1987)

Words: 7908 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Fantasy
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41 Madwoman of the Kilghard Hills [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
  The life of an untrained telepath may be miserable, but is she truly a danger to herself and everyone around her? (Published: 1993)

Words: 4066 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Fantasy
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42 Safe Passage [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
  Encountering bandits once is bad luck. Encountering them twice means you're having a really bad day. (Published: 1994)

Words: 3051 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Fantasy
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43 A Man of Impulse [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Dyan Ardais went to Lindirsholme with his young friend Merryl. He didn't expect to find himself dealing with Merryl's twin sister, Marilla. And he never in his wildest dreams expected what would come from their meeting. (Published: 1988)

Words: 6604 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
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44 Bonds of Sisterhood [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Camilla n'ha Kyria and Rafaella n'ha Doria were Rununciates, oath-sisters, and good friends. But they didn't start out that way... (Published: 1993)

Words: 6078 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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45 Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Before Darkover was Darkover, I wrote this to explain some of the Gods and heroes. I have referred in the novels to 'singing' the Ballad, but I think of it as declaimed rhythmically, to a background of minor arpeggios on a harp.--Marion Zimmer Bradley (Published: 1987)

Words: 1362 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Fantasy
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46 Legend of Lady Bruna [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  All with the right to rule the Alton Domain were dead, save Kennard's unborn son. Lady Bruna swore to serve as Regent, to protect her brother's widow and child, and command the Guards in Thendara until the boy was old enough to take up the duties himself. (Published: 1979)

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47 Lesson of the Inn [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Hilary Castamir had been at Arilinn Tower for half her life. Now she was being sent home, a failure, not strong enough to be a Keeper. But leaving the Tower did not change the way she had been taught to think, and the journey home was a real shock. (Published: 1982)

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48 Ten Minutes or So [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Dyan Ardais is much more popular than I ever conceived when I first invented him. This story takes place in an alternate Darkover; I wondered what would have happened if Dyan had become acquainted with Regis before destroying himself in his eyes.--MZB (Published: 1993)

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49 Hilary's Homecoming [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Hilary had been sent home from Arilinn Tower because she wasn't strong enough for the strenuous life of a Keeper. What she needed now was time for her body to heal from the demands that had been placed on it. Unfortunately, her mother had other plans. (Published: 1993)

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50 Knives [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marna was being badly abused at home. But she was only thirteen--not old enough to take the oath. Would the Renunciates believe and help her when her own mother would not? (Published: 1985)

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51 Hilary's Wedding [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Yllana Castamir had been trying to find a 'suitable' husband for her daughter Hilary ever since she came home from Arilinn six years ago, but all her attempts had failed. Perhaps Hilary would do better to chose for herself. (Published: 1993)

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52 Vai Dom [Darkover series]
by Diana L. Paxson
  How did a colony founded by citizens of a technological, democratic society so quickly became, on Darkover, medieval and feudal? (Published: 1980)

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53 A Gift of Love [Darkover Series]
by Diana L. Paxson
  The proposal seemed simple to Darriel. Lionora, his wife, would bear no more children. So Robard's daughter would now live with them in order to bear him a laran-gifted child. Darriel's and Robard's men thought it a good plan. Why should Lionora mind? (Published: 1982)

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54 Everything But Freedom [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Rohana Ardais had rank, wealth, a noble husband, sons and a daughter, servants, a large estate and the power to run it as she saw fit. Most women would have thought her life was perfect--after all, what more could she want? (Published: 1987)

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55 The Mother Quest [Darkover series]
by Diana L. Paxson
  It was bad enough that Renunciate law required Caitrin to give her son to his father to raise. But when he was kidnapped and everyone but his half-sister Kiera Ridenow thought him dead, it was the start of the strangest journey of Caitrin's life. (Published: 1985)

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56 The Sum of the Parts [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
  High on a mountaintop, in Darkover's bitter spring, Marguerida and Donald, two very different refugees, must survive beside the wreckage of their two shattered planes. (Published: 1987)

Words: 7909 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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57 The Word of a Hastur [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  There's a Darkovan proverb that says that the word of a Hastur is as good as the oath of any other man. But proverbs have to start somewhere... (Published: 1994)

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58 Festival Night [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
  Nothing stands between chaos-ravaged Darkover and a madman's dreams of conquest, except a sick man, the young Keeper Marguerida, a half-emptied medikit ... and the laws of physics. (Published: 1988)

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59 Death in Thendara [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
  The death of a scoundrel in chaos-ridden Thendara leads through a tangle of misrepresentation, forgery, smuggling, tax evasion, panic, paranoia, and amateur detection to the death of another scoundrel.... (Published: 1990)

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60 A Butterfly Season [Darkover series]
by Diana L. Paxson
  A Free Amazon takes a job as a trail guide, only to discover that her clients are nothing she could ever have imagined. (Published: 1991)

Words: 4418 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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61 Avarra's Children [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
  In the days after the World-Wreckers, Thendara struggles to pull itself out of chaos: civil disorder, homeless children, something strange in an abandoned mansion, and a goddess gone mad. (Published: 1991)

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62 A Different Kind of Victory [Darkover series]
by Diana L. Paxson
  It was bad enough that Darriel had a psychic gift he barely understood, but now he had a fosterling with the same gift. Could he train the boy to fight, or would their shared gift make that impossible? (Published: 1987)

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63 The Frontier [Darkover series]
by Diana L. Paxson
  Frontier medicine has always been challenging, but treating a multiple personality on Darkover may involve challenges a Terran psychiatrist would never have imagined. (Published: 1993)

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64 The Wind Man [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
  Once, during the Ages of Chaos, an evil wizard had lost himself in the mountains, hoarding the power of his starstone. Once, somewhat later, a child also lost her way in the mountains. (Published: 1993)

Words: 5760 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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65 The Place Between [Darkover series]
by Diana L. Paxson
  Renunciate Lian n'ha Galia had agreed to guide a party of alien scientist led by the head of Institute of Xeno-Archaeology to a place in the mountains sacred to the Trailmen. But she was justly apprehensive as to what they would find there. (Published: 1994)

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66 Through Fire and Frost [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
  Between forest fires below and blizzards above, a young priest must guide a mother and her newborn child to safety. (Published: 1982)

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67 Her Own Blood [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter
  Gwennis was surprised to discover that she was the nedestra daughter of a comyn lord. But she had no idea of how that fact was going to change her life. (Published: 1985)

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68 The Devourer Within [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter
  Kyria's betrothed was involved with a dangerous man and an even more dangerous experiment. Would her love for him--and her laran--be enough to save him? (Published: 1988)

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69 Family Visit [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter
  Her marriage and her work as a midwife had made Renata n'ha Jamilla well aware of the fact that men wanted sons and would wear their wives out with too-frequent childbearing to get them. Now her daughter was desperately trying to bear a living child. (Published: 1991)

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70 The Speaking Touch [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter
  "An untrained telepath is a danger to herself and everyone around her" is a common Darkovan proverb. But if a girl is born on a world that doesn't believe in psychic gifts, she's just going to have to do the best she can without training. (Published: 1991)

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71 Carmen's Flight [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter, Leslie Roy Carter
  All that Space Service Specialist Carmen Delorien planned was a short sight-seeing trip on her day off. So why was she AWOL, on a part of Darkover forbidden to offworlders, with a weapon forbidden by the Compact? (Published: 1993)

Words: 4477 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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72 Clingfire [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
  Coryn Hastur, Keeper of Hali Tower, loved Arielle and wanted to marry her, but his work in the Tower was important, and the head of his family did not want him to marry at all. So he threw himself into his work, convinced that his circumstances could never change. (Published: 1990)

Words: 3441 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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73 Carlina's Calling [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
  Carlina was a Priestess of Avarra. Jandria was a Guild-mother of the Sisterhood of the Sword. But neither order had a place for Jandria's forsworn oath-daughter and her newborn child, so Carlina and Jandria decided to found a new one, combining the features of both, to be a haven for all women who would come to them. (Published: 1991)

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74 A Way Through the Fog [Darkover series]
by Patricia Cirone
  Irina didn't think she had laran; she knew she didn't have the weather sense that her father had possessed. But he was dead, and she had to hold his place for her little brother, so she went out with the fishing boats anyway. (Published: 1991)

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75 The Keeper's Peace [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
  Ari's didn't know his true parentage or why his foster mother insisted on sending him to Hali Tower. Neither did anyone at Hali--until he arrived there. (Published: 1991)

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76 About Time [Darkover series]
by Patricia Cirone
  Renunciates are sworn to be sisters to each other, no matter how different their personalities and habits. But sometimes they act like biological sisters, so it can be difficult to stop the squabbling and work together. (Published: 1991)

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77 A Lesser Life [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
  When Rentata's foster son Ari came home from his training in the tower for the coronation of her son Brenton as Lord of Aldaran, he brought a surprise guest: Coryn Hastur, Keeper of Hali Tower, the most powerful laranzu in the Domains. Given her history with Coryn, Renata was ambivalent about his presence. But when the attack that Lord Scathfell had been planning erupted during the coronation ceremony, she had reason to be glad for both Coryn's powers and her own. (Published: 1993)

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78 Victory's Cost [Darkover series]
by Patricia Cirone
  Grai, the seventh son of a minor king, felt out-of-place at home. He hoped that he would fit in at the Tower, but the leroni seemed to find him as useless as his family did. And then he started to get strange dreams... (Published: 1993)

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79 Kadarin Tears [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
  Ari took his father Coryn's place as the only Hastur at Hali Tower after Coryn's laran was burned out during an attack. But the workload was heavy, especially when a new war broke out in the Domains. (Published: 1994)

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