Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm are one and the same person; but they are very different writers. "The Inheritance" is a collection of short novels, novellas and stories which showcases some of the very best fiction she has written under either name. Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires and alien musicians, tramps and feral cats. In "The Homecoming", Lady Carillion Carrock and a number of other Jamaillian nobles are sailing to the Cursed Shores. Their journey is not by choice: for plotting against the Satrap, their wealth has been confiscated and they have been exiled. Until now, Carillion has done nothing but lead a life of privilege. She believes they are bound for wondrous cities, cities where ancient kings and queens dusted their skin with gold and wore, jewels above their eyes. But when she is marooned by the ship"s unscrupulous captain, she will soon discover the grim reality of what survival in the Rain Wilds entails. The...