Winterlands Short Stories/Novellas

A novelette of 15,000 words; a sequel to Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. Everyone knows that when the faerie-folk of the marshes kidnap a human child, they replace it with a changeling, a shadow-baby. When John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winterlands, hears that the inhabitants of a local village are accusing a changeling child of murdering its human foster-mother, he is alarmed and appalled. He knows that changelings don't kill their foster parents - and that if the villagers harm the changeling, the shadowy faeries are capable of taking horrible revenge.

A novelette of 12,000 words, in the universe of Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winterlands, and his partner the witch Jenny Waynest, are hired by a dragon to rescue a princess... who had originally made a deal with the dragon to carry her off and split her father's treasure. But the plan went amiss, and now the Princess needs rescuing from entities that the dragon doesn't want to tangle with.

A novelette of 12,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Winterlands (Dragonsbane) series. When a visiting wizard calls at Alyn Hold with the news that the region is about to be attacked by a horrible monster, John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winterlands, and his wizardly partner Jenny Waynest, are much less upset than the Silver Mage thinks they should be. The Silver Mage demands that the whole countryside turn out to kill the Kraken once and for all; John points out that it would involve fewer casualties if everyone simply moved out of its way for the three days (out of 150 years) during which it comes ashore, easily determined by the behavior of the matriarch pig Damselblossom. When the Silver Mage insists upon a showdown, John begins to suspect his motives.

A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. When a gnome wizard is murdered, the other gnome mages, fearing the killer was a demon, send for human witch Jenny Waynest. Unfortunately, Jenny is away. Her non-wizard partner, the scholarly Dragonsbane John Aversin, steps in to help solve the crime.