title: Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune
author:  Lynn Abbey 
description: This is the second, after <i>Turning Points</i> (2002), in another series of collections of new stories about the city of Sanctuary, originally the creation of editor Abbey and Robert Asprin in their Thieves' World, now long a setting exploited by a variety of authors. Sanctuary was founded by runaway slaves, hence the name, and remains a refuge for those able to call no other place home--a deadly fate, indeed, for there is no one there to guard one's back. Weapons, wizardry, music--any of these can start something in Sanctuary that only the boldest can finish. Editor Abbey unifies this book with the device of a shipwreck off the coast of Sanctuary, with the stuff looted from it cranking up the levels of menace and chaos in the city. She has gotten high-quality contributions from mostly well-known fantasy hands, and she interweaves them so deftly that the book reads like a novel. Although it will help to be previously acquainted with Thieves' World, it isn't necessary to appreciate this book. <i>Roland Green</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  Steal:
  
  
  
  
  
  Forty Thieves Retold
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEMELZA CARLTON
  
  
  
  
  
  A tale from the
  
  
  
  
  
  Romance a Medieval Fairytale series
  
  
  
  
  
  A shrewd servant. A penniless young woodcutter. A priceless stolen treasure.
  
  
  Melisende joins a crusade, her head full of glory and victory, only to flee
  from her first battle. Forced to hide as a housemaid while the enemy army
  occupies the city she'd hoped to save, she despairs of ever finding her way
  home.
  
  Mithra plans to settle down with the girl of his dreams, but when the war
  spills into his city, all dreams of the future are shattered. When he finds a
  Crusader maiden in the woods and they stumble across a priceless treasure, he
  thinks his luck might have turned…until he discovers the penalty of stealing
  from the Forty Thieves.
  
  Can Melisende and Mithra save his family from the Forty Thieves?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  This one is for Sasha Wasley, in thanks for her workshop where Mithra
  introduced himself to me so clearly I wanted to g