Jody Lynn Nye

Halfling Tildi Summerbee has led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they manage the family farm. Her days are boring, but happy...until a Thraik attack decimates her family. In an effort to provide for Tildi, the town's leaders prepare an arranged marriage and take control of her farm's assets. After all, a female halfling is incapable of handling such matters on her own. Tildi sees things differently. In order to escape her arranged marriage and overcome the prejudices against the "weaker" sex, she decides to pass herself off as a man. Assuming the guise of her brother Teldo, Tildi disappears into the night. She plans to accept Teldo's position as an apprentice to a great wizard. But she soon finds that the rest of the world isn't very welcoming to halflings. And that she is surrounded by fantastic dangers. Dangers that are more than a match for a wizard's apprentice.

Anthology features nineteen stories from bestselling, award-winning, and emerging authors, and includes brand new, never-before seen stories from Jim Butcher's, "Dresden Files," Robert Asprin's "The Myth-Adventures" by Jody Lynn Nye, and Neo Edmund's "Red Riding Alpha Huntress Chronicles."

FROM THE PAGES OF THE HEX-FILES Someone or something unseen has been attacking Fionna Kenmare, lead singer for the Irish acid-folk rock band Green Fire. Now she's on tour in the United States, about to play the biggest concert of her career — and she's in fear for her life, because that something has followed her across the ocean. All that stands between her and an all-too-real magical death are two offbeat government agents: Liz Mayfield, special agent for the British Government Office of Occult & Paranormal Sightings Investigation. Little did she imagine when she was given her dream assignment that she'd face the most fearsome magical onslaught of her life. Or that she'd run into an old friend … Beauray Boudreau, Liz's American counterpart from the FBI, where he's known as "Boo-Boo" Boudreau. And he doesn't have that nickname for nothing … If this unlikely duo can't solve the mystery of Fionna's invisible attackers, the singer will have a lot more to worry about than MTV.

Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. So, like others before her, she decided to 'become' a spaceship, with a guy called Keffas as her brawn. Their mission is to search the galaxy for signs of intelligent life. Unfortunately their quest is largely in vain, until they arrive on Ozran, a pleasant little world peopled by some very friendly aliens. But Carialle's delight in this discovery is short-lived when it become apparent that the 'aliens' are really devolved humans, enslaved by a race of sorcerers. And, as Keff discovers to his cost, these sorcerers really do seem to possess awesome powers. But then nothing on Ozran is as it seems...

" In New York Times bestselling author Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye's newest Big Easy dragon tale, Griffen McCandles is about to give the forces of evil a run for their money; Griffen already has his hands full running his gambling operation in New Orleans and dealing with his dragon heritage. Now his pregnant sister, Valerie, is missing-possibly kidnapped-and his uncle, Malcolm McCandles, has flown into town for a mysterious meeting with a powerful man who's been dead for almost eight decades. And Griffen certainly hasn't got the time to protect Councilwoman Penny Dunbar, a dragon who's running for governor of Louisiana-if malign forces don't take her out first. Griffen learned a long time ago to play the hand fate has dealt him, but with many lives at stake-including Val's unborn dragon-he's hoping for an ace in the hole;"--

Desperate circumstances forced Lunzie Mespil, Healer (a combination of doctor and psychiatrist) to abandon the starship on which she was a passenger. Since she made it to a lifeboat, Lunzie is not too worried; she will spend a month or two in cryogenic stasis awaiting inevitable rescue, and then proceed with her life. Only it's not a month or two. Lunzie waits for sixty-two years before she is finally picked up. How Lunzie deals with being reborn to a world she never made, a world that has grown strangely dark and dangerous during her long sleep, is the story of The Death of Sleep. The Death of Sleep is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye, published by Baen Books in 1990.It is the second book in the Planet Pirates trilogy and continues the Ireta series that McCaffrey initiated with Dinosaur Planet in 1978.Elizabeth Moon and McCaffrey wrote the other two Planet Pirates books