Nineteen tales of faeries and magic at Midwinter, featuring Diana Benedict's "Summerland's Paladin": Hunted by half-brothers who despise his fox nature, Todd flees into a snowstorm and follows a talking raven through a tunnel of branches into Summerland. There the Queen of Faerie offers him a choice: save her kingdom from winter's grip, and win the truth about his parents, a wife and a home of his own — or go back and face his brothers. But winter isn't Summerland's only enemy.