The Empty Crown Author:Rosemary Edghill From inside flap: — "Includes the Novels: — The Sword of Maiden's Tears — The Cup of Morning Shadows — The Cloak of Night and Daggers — What do you get when you drop an elphen lord onto the sidewalks of New York? A tale of treasures, monsters, love and librarians, spiked with just the right amount of irony and humor. — Sensible student librarian Ruth ... more »Marlowe was ready for a change. So when she stumbled over New York City's latest mugging victim-a tall guy with long silvery hair, catlike eyes, and pointed ears-her first thought(besides Good makeup, but not period costume) was how to help. It only made sense to take him home.
His name, he told Ruth and her friends, Naomi, Michael, Jane and Phillip, was Rohannan Melior of the House of the Silver Silences in Chandrakar. How he had come to the mortal World of Iron he didn't know. But he did know he must reclaim the priceless item the mugger's had stolen from him-the Sword of Maiden's Tears. For a curse had been placed on this magical blade, a curse that would transform any mortal who ceased it into a hideous man-eating monster.
How Ruth, Melior and their friends find and conquer this evil is just the first savory tale of a saga that sweeps from Earth to the sylvan land of Chandrakar and back again (to a SF con, no less!)"« less