21 original stories of Dangerous Women by top genre writers, brought together in a new anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.

Intrepid warriors, far-ranging spacewomen, formidable superheroines, hard-living Bad Girls, embattled survivors, private investigators, seductive femmes fatale and haughty queens; as Gardner Dubois writes in his introduction, 'if you want to tie any of these women to the railway tracks, you'll have a real fight on your hands!'

This thrilling collection features both standalone tales and familiar worlds and characters, including Joe Abercrombie's Red Country backdrop; Jim Butcher's world of Harry Dresden; Lev Grossman's Magicians; Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series; and a story by Caroline Spector in the Wild Cards shared universe.

Return to Westoros in The Princess and the Queen, a new novella from George R. R. Martin about the Dance of Dragons, a bitter civil war that divided the kingdom nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.

The full list of gripping stories, amazing authors and stellar narrators:

- Some Desperado by Joe Abercrombie; Read by Stana Katic

- My Heart Is Either Broken by Megan Abbott; Read by Jake Weber

- Nora's Song by Cecelia Holland; Read by Harriet Walter

- The Hands That Are Not There by Melinda Snodgrass; Read by Jonathan Frakes

- Bombshells by Jim Butcher; Read by Emily Rankin

- Raisa Stepanova by Carrie Vaughn; Read by Inna Korobkina

- Wrestling Jesus by Joe R. Lansdale; Read by Scott Brick

- Neighbors by Megan Lindholm; Read by Lee Meriwether

- I Know How to Pick 'Em by Lawrence Block; Read by Jake Weber

- Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson; Read by Claudia Black

- A Queen in Exile by Sharon Kay Penman; Read by Harriet Walter

- The Girl in the Mirror by Lev Grossman; Read by Sophie Turner

- Second Arabesque, Very Slowly by Nancy Kress; Read by Janis Ian

- City Lazarus by Diana Rowland; Read by Scott Brick

- Virgins by Diana Gabaldon; Read by Allan Scott-Douglas

- Pronouncing Doom by S.M. Stirling; Read by Stana Katic

- Name the Beast by Sam Sykes; Read by Claudia Black

- Caregivers by Pat Cadigan; Read by Janis Ian

- Lies My Mother Told Me by Caroline Spector; Read by Maggi-Meg Reed

- Hell Hath No Fury by Sherilynn Kenyon; Read by Jenna Lamia

- The Princess and the Queen by George R. R. Martin; Read by Iain Glen

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