A Jesuit priest travels to Darkover to investigate the life of a would-be saint in Patricia Anne Buard's "Devil's Advocate," while another investigation of a poltergeist in Arilinn Tower unmasks a restless young ghost in Elisabeth Waters's "Playfellow." The latest anthology of 15 stories set on Bradley's world of Darkover contains solid contributions by veteran and news authors and illustrates the continuing appeal of the planet of the Bloody Sun
"A Different Kind of Victory", by Diana L. Paxson
"The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda", by Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Flight", by Nina Boal
"Salt", by Diann Partridge
"The Wasteland", by Deborah Wheeler
"A Cell Opens", by Joe Wilcox
"The Sum of the Parts", by Dorothy J. Heydt
"Devil’s Advocate", by Patricia Anne Buard
"Kihar", by Vera Nazarian
"Playfellow", by Elisabeth Waters
"Different Path", by P. J. Buchanan
"The Shadow", by Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Coils", by Patricia Shaw Mathews
"The Promise", by Mary Fenoglio
"The Dare", by Marny Whiteaker