These stories are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in each story are either products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously.
A QUESTIONABLE CLIENT copyright © 2010 by Ilona Andrews. EVEN HAND copyright © 2010 by Jim Butcher. THE BEACON copyright © 2010 by Shannon K. Butcher. EVEN A RABBIT WILL BITE copyright © 2010 by Rachel Caine. DARK LADY copyright © 2010 by P. N. Elrod. BEKNIGHTED copyright © 2010 by Deidre Knight. SHIFTING STAR copyright © 2010 by Vicki Pettersson. ROOKWOOD & MRS. KING copyright © 2010 by Lilith Saintcrow. GOD’S CREATURES copyright © 2010 by Carrie Vaughn. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dark and stormy knights / edited by P. N. Elrod.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-59834-1
1. Fantasy fiction, American. I. Elrod, P. N. (Patricia Nead)
PS648.F3D365 2010
813'.0876608—dc22
2009046749
First Edition: August 2010
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