Content of the "Dangerous Woman" anthology (as per Wikipedia):
- “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie (The First Law) -- In the wild west, a desperate woman is chased by bounty hunters into a derelict town and still manages to come out on top of the situation.
- “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott -- A husband suspects his eccentric wife of their daughter's murder, but the truth turns out to be worse.
- “Nora’s Song” by Cecelia Holland -- A story about princess Eleanor and her observation on the royal household of Henry II of England and (future) Richard I.
- “The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass -- A lieutenant in a dystopian future hears about a conspiracy theory about an alien race capable of genetically altering humans.
- “Bombshells” by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files) -- A young wizard's apprentice finds herself caught between warring factions and must race against time to save a vampire.
- “Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn -- World war II Russian fighter pilot with an ambition to become an ace. The tale of the Russian resistance and her plight are interwoven with her own struggle for recognition.
- “Wrestling Jesus” by Joe R. Lansdale -- Two wrestlers become spellbound by a woman and continue to wrestle each other even after retirement on the unspoken condition that the winner gets to keep the woman.
- “Neighbors” by Megan Lindholm -- In a scenic suburb of Seattle, alzheimer's disease changes the way of life for elderly women. A bit of magic and time travel are thrown in for good measure.
- “I Know How to Pick ’Em” by Lawrence Block, a contemporary crime thriller Femme fatale crime story with a twist.
- “Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” by Brandon Sanderson (The Cosmere) -- In a forest inhabited by supernatural evil beings called shades, an elderly inn-keeper turns bounty hunter at night.
- “A Queen in Exile” by Sharon Kay Penman, chronicling a little-known episode of late 12th-century Sicilian history -- Constance of Sicily, goes to great lengths to secure the support of the people for her son, (future) Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- “The Girl in the Mirror” by Lev Grossman (Magicians)
- “Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” by Nancy Kress
- “City Lazarus” by Diana Rowland
- “Virgins” by Diana Gabaldon (Outlander), an 18th-century Scots mercenary adventure
- “Hell Hath No Fury” by Sherrilyn Kenyon, a present-day Native American ghost story
- “Pronouncing Doom” by S. M. Stirling (Emberverse), a "hanging judge" tale set "in a postapocalyptic America devastated by plague and machine failure"
- “Name the Beast” by Sam Sykes
- “Caretakers” by Pat Cadigan
- “Lies My Mother Told Me” by Caroline Spector (Wild Cards)
- “The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens” by George R.R. Martin, a tale of "continent-burning warfare" that explodes between Targaryen Princess Rhaenyra and her stepmother Queen Alicent, set in the Westeros of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, 200 years before the events of A Game of Thrones
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