Victoria Goddard is a writer of fantasy. She is a keen gardener, an inveterate book collector, and has a PhD in Medieval Studies (focusing on Dante and Boethius) from the University of Toronto. She's been a university lecturer, a sexton, a cheesemonger, and currently lives in a cozy farmhouse in the Canadian Maritimes with two dogs, three cats, far too many books, and a wildly exuberant garden.

The Sisters Avramapul by Victoria Goddard

Three sisters, daughters of a bandit queen. They aren't waiting for anything or anyone to go on adventures—but woe betide those who might try to interfere. Contains the novellas: The Bride of the Blue Wind, The Warrior of the Third Veil, and The Weaver of the Middle Desert.

 
 

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THE BRIDE OF THE BLUE WIND

What the gods desire, they take.

When the gods take a person, there is not much one can do about it, even if there seems something strange and terrible about the god. Through the gates of the eastern mountains pass only the gods, the dead, and the heroes of legend. Mere mortals do not go farther than the tombs lining the roads of the Middle Desert.

Except for the daughters of the Bandit Queen of the Oclaresh, that is. The lord of the Blue Wind took their youngest sister. When Pali and Arzu discover that there is something gravely wrong, they decide that the gods work through the hands of men, that justice binds everyone—god, man, djinni, or demon—and that they are not afraid of the road east.