Celia S. Friedman is a best-selling author of fantasy and science fiction, as well as an accomplished costume designer. Critics have acclaimed her complex and compelling characters, richly textured worlds, and keen insight into the shadows and twists of human nature. Her stories are often dark, always intense...hard to put down, impossible to forget.

"C. S. Friedman makes fantastic things -- and frightening things -- seem very real. Her characters are people, not just place-holders, and the worlds she creates are as tangible as a live feed from the battlefront or a crash-landing in a savage and unfamiliar wilderness. She also writes bright, clear prose that can shine like gemstones or cut like broken glass. If you haven't read her work you need to do something about that right now."     -- Tad Williams, bestselling author of SHADOWMARCH, OTHERLAND, and MEMORY, SORROW AND THORN

"This thing is so good I'm going to have to hurt her"     -- Melanie Rawn