This collection is a very mixed bag. Though each tale is about a woman of unusual strength, in some form, each is quite different. In one, a Xena like woman travelling with a crippled magician finds that her greatest battle lies in healing him, so they can find love. In another an elf and human cross the barriers between their lives to discover one another and defy the odds to keep their love.

In yet another, two sisters make a dangerous trek to try and save the weaker girl's baby, for it is a powerfully gifted child, even at his young age. In the process, the stronger sister finds a reward of love. The outstanding story in the collection is a re-telling of the Ice Queen. In it, the heroine is given a vision of the man she loves fighting a monster and being infected with shards of magical glass that will kill his soul.

Only by joining forces with a fallen angel named Loki can she save him and her people. The winning aspect of this story is Loki's running commentary that is laugh out loud fun. Of all the stories, this one feels the most complete. The others tend to feel like a piece of a larger story we are jumping into the midst of.

Book Description
From four of today's most imaginative authors come four stories of love as pure as the driven snow that will warm the coldest of hearts.

USA Today bestselling author Claire Delacroix delivers an enchanting tale of a gifted seer who receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love.

USA Today bestselling author Lynn Kurland spins a story of a mortal man and an elven woman who endure both the mundane and the magical in their quest to remain together.

Award-winning author Sharon Shinn writes of a brave young woman who saves her sister's magically- gifted child, only to receive an unexpected gift of her own.

And newcomer Sarah Monette's romantic novella tells of a warrior maiden trapped in a deadly storm with the only man she ever wanted, whose scars she must heal if he is ever to want her.