This fifth anthology of all-original Darkover stories, first published in 1987, contains the following stories: Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; The Shadow, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Flight, by Nina Boal; Devil's Advocate, by Patricia Buard; Different Path, by Penny Buchanan; The Promise, by Mary Fenoglio; The Sum of the Parts, by Dorothy J. Heydt; Coils, by Patricia Shaw Mathews; Kihar, by Vera Nazarian; Salt, by Diann Patridge; A Different Kind of Victory, by Diana L. Paxson; Wasteland, by Deborah J. Ross; Playfellow, by Elisabeth Waters; The Dare, by Marny Whiteaker; A Cell Opens, by Joseph Wilcox.