When the women of the City of Mandrigyn, led by Sheera Galernas, hired the mercenary army of Captain Sun Wolf, to help them rescue their men from the mines of evil, he refused. Little did he realize how insistent the ladies could be, and how far they would go to persuade him to train them against the evil of Altiokis....
Once, it was said, Wensha had been a city of witches, summoning and controlling demons for their evil magic. But in nearby Tandieras, Kaltha claimed to have found their lost book of spells to perform only white magic. When Sun Wolf arrived, he discovered increasing signs of evil magic and demon-controlling spells. And he realized, too late, that a new swarm of demons was trying to lure him to his death....
Sun Wolf knew he had the power of magic, but he needed a master wizard to teach him to fully use his skills. But there was no one who could do the job. When he was called upon to help old friends against the ancient wizard, he did -- thus ensuring a curse that would be executed, unless Sun Wolf could harness his own powers and find a way out....
A novelette of 11,500 words. As Princess Tinomiel's wedding to a charming prince approaches, she falls prey to what her parents are pretty sure is a curse: she falls asleep constantly, and sleeps for longer and longer. They hire former mercenary captain - now turned wizard - Sun Wolf, and his warrior partner Starhawk, to find the malignant Night Queen who is believed to have placed the curse on this perfect Princess. But Sun Wolf and Starhawk find that they may be in as much danger from the three Good Fairies who supposedly blessed the Princess at her birth.
A novelette of 14,000 words. In his quest for a wizard to teach him to use his powers, former mercenary captain Sun Wolf thinks he may have finally found one. Unfortunately, it looks like that one has summoned a dragon to destroy an innocent town - and it's the second dragon to afflict the town in two years. Yet the only wizard he finds there is an untaught - and very pretty - little hedge-witch who sells perfumes and illusions.
A short story of 7,000 words. While her wizard partner Sun Wolf is away, warrior woman Starhawk gets a message from the band of mercenaries which Sun Wolf used to lead. The mercenaries are beseiging a city, and are being attacked by a creature they're pretty sure is magic - despite the fact that nearly every wizard in the world was killed a century ago. Sun Wolf, born with the powers of a wizard, doesn't know how to use them; Starhawk is torn between finding a wizard to instruct him, and saving the lives of her former friends.
A novelette of 10,000 words. When the lovely Mira visits the hermitage of the local wizard, the former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf, to beg his help in rescuing her sweetheart from a traveling mage, Sun Wolf suspects that this is a trap set for him. The challenge is to rescue the young lovers from death and peril without using magic, by which his own soul might be trapped.
A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to Hambly’s Sun Wolf and Starhawk novels. Former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf re-visits the ruined fortress of the Wizard-King, hoping to find the books of magic that the dead sorcerer hoarded. He finds, instead, that a) the defenses and curses that Wizard-King set on his fortress are still very much active and b) there are other mages, as inexperienced as himself, in quest of those books: mages who will stop at nothing to get to them first.