title: Reave the Just : And Other Tales
author: Stephen Donaldson
description: A wondeful collection of fantasy short stories from the renowned author of the Thomas Covenant series. Stephen Donaldson has been one of the world's most popular fantasy writers ever since his first million-selling Thomas Covenant trilogy in 1977. In 1990 he took a new direction with the Gap series, the bestselling sf epic acclaimed as his best work ever. Now, in his first collection since 1984, he returns to mainstream fantasy with eight stunning stories that reveal an astonishing mastery of the shorter form. Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; and 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying. Spellbinding, unpredictable and always entertaining, this new collection displays the remarkable imagination and extraordinary range of a writer at the height of his powers, and confirms Stephen Donaldson's position as a master of modern fantasy.
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  Dear Reader,
  
  
  As soon as Rafael “Whip” Moran appeared in Only Mine a few years ago, I began
  to receive mail begging me to do his story. I assumed that as the weeks and
  months went by, the readers would give up and go on to other things.
  
  They didn’t. The mail just kept piling up, with each week bringing more rather
  than fewer requests.
  
  In the end I couldn’t resist, for Whip was a favorite of mine too. Only Love
  returns to the landscape and the people of Only His, Only Mine, and Only You,
  the wilds of the Colorado Rockies in the years just after the Civil War.
  
  Whip Moran is a yondering man who believes that nothing is more beautiful than
  the sunrise he has never seen. Shannon Conner Smith is an innocent young widow
  who has never been a wife.
  
  Together they fight blizzards, grizzlies, and some human varmints known as the
  Culpeppers. In between, they fight each other, becaus