Best Selling Books by Sharon Shinn

From four of today''s most imaginative authors--Claire Delacroix, Lynn Kurland, Sharon Shinn, and Sarah Monette--comes a quartet snow-pure love stories designed to warm the coldest of hearts.

An Echo and an OriginalLady Elyssa despises her echoes-the creatures who look just like her and copy her every move. But it''s only the echoes that mark her as a high noble, someone elite enough to marry the king''s youngest son, Jordan. She can''t get rid of the echoes, so instead she amuses herself by torturing them when no one is looking.But there''s something Elyssa doesn''t know: Her casual cruelty has brought one of the echoes to life. And this echo, Hope, is learning to think and speak and act on her own. There''s something else Elyssa doesn''t know: Hope has witnessed her secret meetings with revolutionaries bent on starting a war and overthrowing the king. And Hope has made friends in high places-very high places.

A Murder and a MasqueradeBrianna loves her new job as maid to Lady Marguerite. Like many high nobles, Marguerite is attended by echoes, silent creatures who look exactly like her and move in perfect synchronicity. News soon comes that Marguerite has been invited to the royal city as a potential bride for the crown prince. Brianna is delighted to accompany Marguerite to the city-and perhaps get a chance to continue her own flirtation with Nico, one of the king''s inquisitors.Then, disaster strikes on the road when they come under attack. The brutal assault forces Marguerite and Brianna to concoct a desperate plan. Their subterfuge just might work-but only if Brianna can keep Nico from learning the truth. And only if Marguerite can give up her own secret, doomed romance.And all that''s at stake-is the future of the kingdom.

A Misfit and a Mystery In the royal city of Camarria, a street urchin named Chessie lives by her wits, always attended by her two faithful friends, Red and Scar. What no one realizes is that the "friends" are really echoes, creatures who look exactly like their originals but who possess no volition of their own. Echoes normally are only born to high nobles, and Chessie doesn''t want anyone to start asking questions about her past. So she''s developed the ability to move between bodies so rapidly that she can maintain the illusion that she and Red and Scar are three separate people. After someone tries to murder the crown prince, Chessie gets entangled in the investigation when she comes to the aid of Lord Dezmen, the high noble who''s trying to solve the crime. From the back alleys of Camarria to a society party to a rural province, they track down clues.Until one of those clues leads right back to Chessie.

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorFour extraordinary and renowned authors come together with stories of epic romance that live through the ages . . . of the beguiling and transforming power of beauty . . . of a woman awakening to the magic she possesses . . . of a world where human women pursue the love of angels . . . and of a medieval legend who comes thrillingly to life. Four stories to delight and enchant; four rare talents destined to weave a web of magic that will leave you breathless.

It is eight years after Colleen Cavanaugh''s home world was invaded by the Derichets, a tyrannical alien race bent on exploiting the planet''s mineral resources. Most of her family died in the war, and she now lives alone in the city. Aside from her acquaintances at the factory where she toils for the Derichets, Colleen makes a single friend in Jann, a member of the violent group of rebels known as the Chromatti. One day Colleen receives shocking news: her niece Lucy is alive and in need of her help. Together, Colleen, Jann, and Lucy create their own tenuous family.

The national bestselling author picks up where "Archangel" left off. In the world of Samaria, women who craved the attention of angels were known as angel-seekers, a term used with awe by some--and scorn by others.

The bestselling author of "The Alleluia Files" makes her long-awaited journeyback to Samaria for the story of Archangel and Angelica, as the future of theplanet hangs in the balance.

Damiana is Safe-Keeper in the small village of Tambleham, where neighbors and strangers alike come one by one, in secret, to tell her things they dare not share with anyone else. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.