by David Keener (Editor), Donna Royston (Editor), Martin Wilsey (Author)
You Can't Keep a Good Hero Down
Across astounding and magical worlds, five heroes step forward to defend against magical threats:
1. A sorceress in a besieged city faces a force even more dangerous than the city's would-be conquerors.
2. An unassuming bureaucrat stumbles upon a threat to a vast empire and deals with it in his own inimitable fashion.
3. A resourceful bodyguard for an infant princess, trapped and surrounded by merciless assassins, finds a unique way to hold them at bay.
4. A mage press-ganged into the Royal Navy finds himself volunteered for a dangerous secret mission on foreign soil.
A disgraced royal guardian who failed in protecting his king hunts down those to cost him his honor.
These are the...FANTASTIC DEFENDERS.